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Marc Ambinder - Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal and a contributing editor at The Atlantic. More

Marc Ambinder is the White House correspondent for National Journal. He previously served as the politics editor, and is now a contributing editor, for The Atlantic, where he curated the influential Politics channel on TheAtlantic.com and contributed to the magazine. He was also a chief political consultant to CBS News. Earlier, at NJ's Hotline, Ambinder was the founding editor of "Hotline On Call," a pathbreaking political news blog. He also worked as a producer and reporter for the ABC News Political Unit and was one of the founders of ABC's "The Note." Born in New York City, raised in Central Florida, Ambinder is a 2001 graduate of Harvard and lives in Washington, D.C.
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The Pope's Airplane

By Marc Ambinder

Apr 15 2008, 9:32 AM ET Comment

Attention scanner enthusiasts: the official callsign of the aircraft carrying Pope Benedict is "Shepherd 1."

He'll be arriving at Andrews Air Force Base around 4:00 pm.

Listen here, and you might hear the magic words...

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