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In this June 2012 photo, Linda Bean speaks to reporters outside the Cabinet Room after a meeting with Maine Gov. Paul LePage at the State House in Augusta, Maine. President-elect Donald Trump urged Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017, for people to buy L.L. Bean products as the company faces calls for a boycott because of Linda Bean's donations to his candidacy. Bean called the backlash against her 'bullying' and 'un-American' during morning television interviews and vowed that she would not step down from the company's board of directors.
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