First a Tense Talk With Clinton, Then Richardson Backs Obama

By ADAM NAGOURNEY and JEFF ZELENY

PORTLAND, Ore. — “I talked to Senator Clinton last night,” Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico said on Friday, describing the tense telephone call in which he informed Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton that, despite two months of personal entreaties by her and her husband, he would be endorsing Senator Barack Obama for president.

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