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Penny Pritzker Shows Why She Got Buffett to Aid Obama

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Penny Pritzker was driving to Chicago's Midway Airport in June to meet Barack Obama when her cell phone rang.

She, the Obamas and campaign staff were flying to St. Paul, Minnesota, where Obama would proclaim himself the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee. Pritzker's 17-year-old son wanted to remind her to savor history in the making.