By KATHERINE KERSTEN, Minneapolis Star Tribune

Buttonholed by history: His memorabilia dates to 1820

Paul Bengston was different from the other boys in the Minnetonka, Minn., neighborhood where he grew up in the 1960s and early '70s. At age 10, while his pals collected Marvel comic books or chased the latest Roger Maris baseball card, Bengston was searching high and low for pins from Franklin Delano Roosevelt's political campaigns.

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Hawaii governor and Alaska governor share, disagree

ST. PAUL, Minn. -- You know it's not politics-as-usual when you're attending a meeting of the nation's governors and one of them goes into labor. When -- just a few months later -- that new mother is preparing to speak to the Republican National Convention as the party's vice-presidential candidate, you know that politics-as-usual is gone for good.

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