03/28/10

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Other U.S. presidents have bonded with foreign leaders, but Obama so far has no such ties. Does that matter? "It really is striking about Obama: Most presidents have had a special or close relationship with a foreign leader they could turn to," says Thomas Henriksen, a US foreign-policy scholar at the Hoover Institution in Stanford, Calif. "But it appears to be his nature or personality, the so-called no-drama-Obama thing."

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