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Do at one point worked for Nguyen as her chief of staff after she was elected to the board in 2007, but the two had a public falling-out when Do campaigned to take the county seat in 2016.

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He resigned four years later, after a public falling-out with the director of the National Institutes of Health.

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The pair have never had a falling-out, and some people close to them say Netanyahu sees their relationship like that of a father and son.

He left after the two had a falling-out after Musk demanded that he should become its CEO or have it merge with Tesla, the electric-vehicle maker controlled by Musk.

But Burns’ actions appear far more logical when viewed with consideration for the possibility that what he feared most was not a personal falling-out with Nixon but the prospect of jeopardizing the integrity of the entire U.S. economy.

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