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There are a few Democrats around who began life as moderate Republicans--Californian former Rep. and Clinton White House Chief of Staff Leon Panetta is one--but for most (including Panetta), the switch was made at least two decades ago.
However, according to David Graham's testimony to the United States Senate [15] and a report on internal Merck documents [16], there was good reason for concern about a possible safety signal before 1999, when Vioxx was approved and recruitment for VIGOR began [15].
That winter Mitchell began selling his Caspian caviar to chefs in Boston.
Their enmity began in earnest at the 1960 Democratic National Convention in Los Angeles, where JFK decisively turned back Johnson's last-minute bid for the nomination.
Around 2 in the morning, our house began to shake.