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As for Lin, Obama says Secretary of Education Arne Duncan tipped him off while the two played basketball together.
"He said, 'I'm telling you, we've got this terrific guard named Jeremy Lin at Harvard,'" said Obama, himself a Harvard alum.
"And then one of my best friends, his son is a freshman at Harvard, and so when he went for a recruiting trip he saw Lin in action. So I've been on the Jeremy Lin bandwagon for a while."
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