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President Lyndon B. Johnson sports a big grin as he arrives at Andrews Air Force Base in Maryland, Jan. 5, 1964. The chief executive returned to Washington after a two-week working holiday at his Texas ranch.

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FILE - In this Aug. 14, 1945 file photo provided by the U.S. Navy, a sailor and a nurse kiss passionately in Manhattan's Times Square, as New York City celebrates the end of World War II.

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"Signing of the Constitution," a 1940 painting by Howard Chandler Christy, is shown.

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In this May 1, 1980 photo, then Grenada's Prime Minister Maurice Bishop, center, is flanked by Cuba's leader Fidel Castro, right, and Nicaragua's President Daniel Ortega in Havana, Cuba.

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A June 25, 1999, file photo shows an enlargement of the U.S. Postal Service's stamp depicting Rosie the Riveter, in South Portland, Maine.

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A protester holds American flags as he marches during a rally in support of undocumented immigrants in Charlotte, N.C., Monday, May 1, 2017.

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Tag: History

A president’s prank, and how a strange vehicle made it possible

Judge deals blow to Obama hopes of building his library on historic park land

Kissing sailor from famous World War II photograph dead at 95

Sen. Mike Rounds: For Presidents Day, bring back the spirit of compromise held by our Founding Fathers

Alan Dershowitz: Trump’s national emergency a ‘mistake’

JFK must-haves at auction: Presidential flag, inauguration shirt

What Vox’s Matthew Yglesias gets wrong about the Cold War

On the anniversary of ‘We Can Do It,’ how the Rosie the Riveter poster became a protest

D’oh: Only 1 state passes US citizenship test, DC fails big

Amid Virginia mud, Richmond rises to Ashe

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