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In March 2008, as Hillary and Barack battled it out in the presidential primaries, Samantha Power, a top foreign-policy adviser to then-Sen. Obama (D-Ill.), gave an interview to The Scotsman in which she called then-Sen. Clinton (D-N.Y.) “a monster” who “is stooping to anything” to beat Obama and capture the Democratic nomination.

The knives were out, and Power, a Harvard professor and author of the book A Problem From Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (2002), resigned the same day. Once elected, President Obama quickly hired her back and she is now a senior aide at the National Security Council.

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