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Roll Call Reviews Obama’s ‘The Final Year’: A Documentary on the Last Days of a West Wing Team

By Jason Dick
Posted January 17, 2018 at 4:24pm

By Jason Dick and D.A. Banks

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Roll Call editor Jason Dick shares his thoughts on “The Final Year,” an HBO documentary in theaters Jan. 19 that chronicles the outgoing Obama administration’s last year, focusing on its foreign policy efforts. Also, read and hear more about the film in Dick’s conversation with Obama aide Ben Rhodes and filmmaker Greg Barker, which will be available in Roll Call’s Political Theater newsletter and podcast next week. Sign up for the newsletter here.

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