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Distractions Mark GOP Convention's First Day

Republicans opened their storm-shortened national convention Monday amid distractions involving running mate Sarah Palin. It was disclosed that a lawyer had been hired to represent the Alaska governor in an investigation of her firing of the state's public safety commissioner. The other disclosure was personal — the pregnancy of her 17-year-old unmarried daughter.

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David Welna is NPR's national security correspondent.