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: One was the Republican chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; the other, new to Washington, was a Democrat who had spent his Political Career in the Illinois state senate and had no experience in Arms Control or Foreign Policy.

But despite their differences, Indiana Sen. Richard Lugar served as mentor and friend to Barack Obama, inviting him along on a trip to Russia and Eastern Europe to inspect nuclear sites only a few months after Obama was sworn in as a U.S. senator.

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