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It’s fair to say that we may have had some influence.
— Former senator Bob Dole, who now serves as special counsel to Alston & Bird, referring to the fact that he and the firm had assisted President-elect Donald Trump in arranging a telephone call with Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen, breaking with decades of diplomatic tradition.

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