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At a talk at the University of Maine, a student asked Attorney General Holder to reveal one of the nominees for Obama's vice president. Reports Maine Public BroadcastIng: Holder was legal adviser to Obama during the presidential campaign, and later on, the committee that recommended a vice presidential choice to Obama. "Alright, here's a little tidbit," Holder told the gathering. "One of the people that we did consider was this gentleman right here. And Secretary Cohen doesn't really know how close he came in the process. He had one problem, though. He was John McCain's best man at his wedding. And as we played that out we just thought, that's going to be difficult, that's going to be difficult."

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