From the U.S. News Archives
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The first televised presidential debate between Richard Nixon and John F. Kennedy is shown on a television on Oct. 13, 1960.
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President Dwight Eisenhower looks back over his shoulder at press photographers at the time of his farewell address on Jan. 17, 1961, in the White House.
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President Dwight Eisenhower and Vice President Richard Nixon meet on Jan. 18, 1961, days before leaving office.
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U.S. soldiers train in anti-guerrilla tactics deep in the Vietnam jungle on April 17, 1961.
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Caroline Kennedy Jr. watches her parents host a party on the White House lawn on May 10, 1961.
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President John F. Kennedy throws the first baseball to open the season at Griffith Stadium on April 10, 1961.
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President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy attend a dinner for the National Cultural Center in Washington on Nov. 29, 1962.
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Protesters march through the streets of Washington for racial equality on Aug. 28, 1963.
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A scene from the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on Sept. 26, 1963.
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The flag flies at half mast over the White House on Nov. 22, 1963, following the announcement of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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Honor guards stand around the casket of President John F. Kennedy as it lies in state on public view at the Capitol Rotunda on Nov. 24, 1963.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson listens to Tom Fletcher of Inez, Ky., on April 24, 1964, while sitting on a stack of lumber during the president's poverty tour of the country.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the 1964 Civil Rights Bill, making the segregation of public facilities and discrimination in employment illegal.
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Ku Klux Klan members support Barry Goldwater's campaign for the presidential nomination at the Republican National Convention in San Francisco on July 12, 1964.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson announces the death of former president Herbert Hoover on Oct. 10, 1964.
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Martin Luther King Jr. talks with reporters at the White House on March 5, 1965.
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President Lyndon B. Johnson sits at his desk in the White House for the signing of the "Pacific Northwest Disaster" bill on June 17, 1965.
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Wounded servicemen arrive from Vietnam at Andrews Air Force Base on March 3, 1968.
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This photograph shows the ruins of a store in Washington on April 16, 1968, that was destroyed during the riots that following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr.
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White House Press Secretary Ron Ziegler makes an announcement to the press on the eve of President Richard Nixon's resignation on Aug. 8, 1974.
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President Gerald Ford smokes a pipe while working at his desk in the Oval Office on Feb. 2, 1975.
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Pope John Paul II in Iowa during his first visit to the United States on Oct. 4, 1979.
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Iranians demonstrate against the U.S. government in Washington days after Americans were taken hostage at the embassy in Tehran on Nov. 09, 1979.
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Troops in the 7th Cavalry headquarters participate in a gas mask drill during Operation Desert Shield in Saudi Arabia.
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Secret Service agents and police secure the scene where an assassination attempt was made on President Ronald Reagan on March 30, 1981. The incident took place near the side entrance to the Washington Hilton Hotel. Press Secretary James Brady and police officer Thomas Delahanty lie on the ground.
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Orioles short stop Cal Ripken meets with President Bill Clinton, Chelsea Clinton, Vice President Al Gore, and Tipper Gore before playing the game in which he breaks the record for consecutive games played on Sept. 6, 1995.
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First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks in front of the Fort McHenry flag at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington on July 13, 1998, where the kick-off of the "Save America's Treasures" campaign began.
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Emergency medical staff stand ready outside of the Virginia Hospital Center, the hospital closest to the Pentagon, to treat victims of the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001.
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People gather in the lobby of the United Nations to watch a television broadcast of Secretary of State Colin Powell's UN address concerning Iraq on Feb. 5, 2003.
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The crowd at Western Michigan University in Kalmazoo, Mich., listen to President George W. Bush speak about his tax cut plan on March 3, 2001.
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An empty classroom at Alcee Fortier High School is seen in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina on Dec. 15, 2005.
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