Great shakes - Tidbits & Outrages

Washington Monthly, Dec, 2002

> New Mexico Governor-elect Bill Richardson didn't coast to victory last month on his Clinton administration credentials alone. The former energy secretary conducted his get-out-the-vote effort practically single-handedly. That would be his right hand: Richardson broke the Guinness World Record by shaking 13,392 hands in an eight-hour period, besting President Theodore Roosevelt's 1907 effort of 8,513.

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