Trusted aide Eric Fehrnstrom has worked for Mitt Romney since before the Republican candidate was governor of Massachusetts.

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He sent Dmitry Kozak, a trusted aide, to be his representative in the region and to foster economic development.

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Then over coffee, they might discuss the future of Monsignor Georg Gaenswein, Benedict's trusted aide who has had the difficult task of escorting his old pope into retirement and then returning to the Vatican to serve his successor in the initial rites of the office.

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