Year in Pictures: 2001
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August:
His last days in office may have been besmirched by scandal, but when Bill Clinton moved into his post-presidential offices in Manhattan's Harlem neighborhood in August, the man sometimes referred to as the "first black president" got a hero's welcome from his most faithful constituency. Was the "comeback kid" at it again? The choice at least proved Clinton hadn't lost his deft politician's touch.
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