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John Kerry’s gifts are no small potatoes

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We’ll give you three guesses on what Secretary of State John Kerry gave a senior Russian official on Monday.

Actually, we’ll give you a million, and you won’t get it.

{mosads}While meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Paris, Kerry handed over two Idaho potatoes, according to news reports. Lavrov, who had mentioned Idaho potatoes the last time he met with Kerry, said the gifts were “impressive.”