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Obama stood out, even during brief 1985 NYPIRG job

When 23-year-old Barack Obama, then a recent Columbia University graduate, walked into the office of the New York Public Interest Research Group in 1985 after answering an ad for a job, his supervisor had a warning for him.

"I told him he would make less than $10,000 a year," said Eileen Hershenov, who was the downstate campus coordinator for NYPIRG. "He laughed and told me that was a step...

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