The position of Secretary of State went to James Blaine, who had refused his party's requests to run for president.

VOA: special.2010.05.27

We weren't going to be in a position to see that until we went through all the stuff we've been going over for the last couple of weeks.

我们处理了过去几周研究过的问题,才能搞清这个。

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