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In 1972, photos of Jackie Kennedy sunbathing nude on a Greek beach were taken and published in Hustler Magazine entirely without her consent. This horrible breach of privacy was orchestrated by her then-husband Aristotle Onassis as a gesture of his anger during the downward spiral in their marriage.

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In 1943, Congressman Andrew J. May revealed to the press that U.S. submarines in the Pacific had a high survival rate because Japanese depth charges exploded at too shallow depth. At least 10 submarines and 800 crew were lost when the Japanese Navy modified the charges after the news reached Tokyo.

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Fidel Castro laying a wreath at the statue of Abraham Lincoln during his visit to Washington D.C. in 1959. Castro, who was a deep admirer of Lincoln, kept a bust of the 16th president in his office in Havana for more than 50 years as leader of Cuba.

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In 1924, Calvin Coolidge was officially adopted by the Lakota Nation in gratitude for him signing the Indian Citizenship Act into law that year, granting full U.S. citizenship to all natives on American soil. The Lakota also gave the president the name Wanbli Tokahe, or Leading Eagle.

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The expression on the exhausted face of Captain Francis Fenton of the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines after he was told that his overwhelmed company was nearly out of supplies and ammunition but that they were ordered to keep fighting the North Koreans at No Name Ridge. September 1950. [750x540]

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Senator Joe Biden at the 1982 White House Congressional Picnic hosted by President Ronald Reagan. His sons Beau and Hunter accompanied him.

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The unmarked gravesite of John Frederick Parker, one of the men assigned to guard Abraham Lincoln on April 14th, 1865. Instead of doing his duty, Parker - who was the guard assigned to watch the entrance to the President's box at Ford's Theater - went to a nearby tavern, got drunk, and fell asleep.

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First Lady Rosalynn Carter with Jim Jones in 1976 or 1977, and with John Wayne Gacy in 1978.

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The last surviving widow of an American Civil War veteran was Helen Jackson, who died at the age of 101 in 2020. She was 17 when she wed the 93 year old Union veteran James Bolin in 1936. The marriage was only a loophole so that Bolin could give Jackson his army pension during the Great Depression.

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In 1842, Illinois state auditor James Shields challenged Abraham Lincoln to a duel after Lincoln criticized his stance on a tax plan and mocked him in a newspaper. Shields later backed down when Lincoln insisted they fight with huge broadswords instead of pistols... They then became friends.

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Members of the Procrastinators Club of America protesting against President James Madison and U.S. involvement in the War of 1812. March, 1966.

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The Glock 18C taken from Saddam Hussein during his capture by Delta Force operators on December 13th, 2003. The pistol was initially gifted by Delta Force to President Bush and he kept it in the Oval Office throughout the rest of his presidency, and now it is on display at his presidential library.

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Eugene Stoner and Mikhail Kalashnikov holding each other's rifles when they first met in 1990.

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What are some interesting ironies in presidential history? e.g., when Grover Cleveland met a five year old Franklin Roosevelt during a stressful day in 1887, he told the future four-termer: “My little man, I’m making a strange wish for you: may you never grow up to be President of the United States.

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Only two sitting U.S. presidents have been fired at by enemy soldiers on a battlefield. One was James Madison, who was shot at by British infantry at the Battle of Bladensburg in 1814. The other was Abraham Lincoln, who was almost killed by Confederate snipers at the Battle of Fort Stevens in 1864.

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The then-Princess Elizabeth during some target shooting with a Lee-Enfield rifle, date unknown.

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Happy anniversary, y'all - 5/02/2011

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While studying at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Jimmy Carter was once viciously beaten by a northern-born upperclassman because he refused his demand to sing Marching Through Georgia, a Civil War song commemorating the March to the Sea by General Sherman through Carter's home state.

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After the Battle of Germantown in 1777, the pet dog of British General William Howe, Lila, got loose and crossed the lines to enter George Washington's tent. When he saw Howe's name on her collar, Washington had the dog fed and brushed before returning it to General Howe under a flag of truce.

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Only three presidents in American history have ever been impeached by Congress, and another one resigned before he could be. Out of all the presidents who were never impeached, which one(s) do you feel deserved to be and why?

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George W. Bush reacting to a crying baby in his hands when he visited the residents of Trinwillershagen, Germany on July 16th, 2006.

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In 2001, the Knight's Armament Company created the SR-47 at the request of USSOCOM. It was an M4 which could accept captured Taliban 7.62×39mm Kalashnikov magazines for U.S. special forces operators in Afghanistan. Only seven prototypes of the SR-47 were made.

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A U.S. soldier with a StG-44 rifle taken from Iraqi insurgents in 2004.

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A U.S. soldier posing with an old M1 Garand that was found in the home of a suspected insurgent in Iraq, December 2007.

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In the years after the American Revolution, there was some who believed that George Washington should become the nation's king instead of president. Washington flatly rejected the idea, and in response to it he once said: “I did not defeat George III to become George I.”

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RIP Ken Potts - one of the final two survivors from the USS Arizona on December 7th, 1941. Potts had celebrated his 102nd birthday only nine days ago.

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Only two sitting U.S. presidents have been fired at by enemy soldiers on a battlefield. One was James Madison, who was shot at by British infantry at the Battle of Bladensburg in 1814. The other was Abraham Lincoln, who was almost killed by Confederate snipers at the Battle of Fort Stevens in 1864.

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In 1971, Marshal Tito of Yugoslavia lit a cigar in the Oval Office right next to Richard Nixon - making him the only head of state to defy the White House's no smoking rule. To add to this, the cigar had been gifted to Tito from Fidel Castro himself.

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Calvin Coolidge with a headdress after being officially adopted by the Lakota Nation in 1924. He was adopted in gratitude for signing the Indian Citizenship Act into law that year - giving full U.S. citizenship to all natives on American soil. He was given the name Wanbli Tokahe, or Leading Eagle.

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Happy anniversary, y'all - 5/02/2011

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A gold-plated MP5SD submachine gun that was found in Saddam Hussein's Republican Palace after Baghdad fell in '03.

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The anti-Kennedy handbill circulated by former general Edwin A. Walker in Dallas on November 21st, 1963. Walker resigned from the army in 1961 after a Kennedy-ordered investigation found that he violated the Hatch Act by distributing right-wing John Birch Society literature to his troops.

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Osama Bin Laden's AKMS rifle found by SEAL Team Six in his compound in Abbottabad on May 1st, 2011. The weapon is currently on display at the CIA Museum in Langley, but the museum itself is not open to the public since it is located on the compound of the George Bush Center for Intelligence.

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The 72-year old CIA agent Billy Waugh with an MP5SD and an AK-47 in Gardez, Afghanistan in 2001. Waugh (who already served in Vietnam with MACV-SOG and SAD) used these firearms and more as he hunted for Osama Bin Laden and got into firefights with the Taliban and Al Qaeda in places like Tora Bora.

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In 1943, Congressman Andrew J. May revealed to the press that U.S. submarines in the Pacific had a high survival rate because Japanese depth charges exploded at too shallow depth. At least 10 submarines and 800 crew were lost when the Japanese Navy modified the charges after the news reached Tokyo.

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What are some presidential quotes which have aged like milk?

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Although many know that Ronald Reagan was a huge Back to the Future fan, a lesser-known fact is that Robert Zemeckis actually offered him the role of Hill Valley's mayor for the third installment in 1989. Although Reagan considered it, he declined in the end due to his failing health.

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In 1943, Congressman Andrew J. May revealed to the press that U.S. submarines in the Pacific had a high survival rate because Japanese depth charges exploded at too shallow depth. At least 10 submarines and 800 crew were lost when the Japanese Navy modified the charges after the news reached Tokyo.

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There is an Abraham Lincoln on Mars right now. NASA installed a 1909 Lincoln cent on the Curiosity rover before it launched, intending for the now-114 year old coin to be a calibration target for Curiosity's cameras after the rover's landing in 2012.

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A North Korean soldier armed with a nickel-plated Type 88, a rough clone of the Soviet AK-74. This nickel-plated weapon is ceremonial and is given out to units being inspected by members of the ruling Kim family.

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Bill and Hillary Clinton dressed as James and Dolly Madison during the White House celebrations for both Halloween and Hillary's birthday, October 26th, 1993.

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At around 2:00 AM on the morning of November 23rd, 1963, Secret Service agent Gerald Blaine almost accidentally shot the newly-inaugurated President Lyndon Johnson at his home in suburban Washington. Johnson had left the house for some air without telling the agents - something Kennedy never did.

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Queen Elizabeth II test-firing a standard issue British Army L85 rifle in 1993.

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A side-by-side of John F. Kennedy and Jack Worthington II, a man who claims to be his illegitimate son. Ironically, Worthington was born in Texas on November 22nd, 1961 - exactly two years before the assassination.

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Frederick Douglass was invited to speak at the 1888 Republican National Convention, and after his remarks he received one vote during the roll call vote - which nominally made him a candidate for president. He was the first black man to receive that kind of vote for a major U.S. political party.

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A replica of the flag given to Abraham Lincoln by his Jewish friend Abraham Kohn when he left Chicago for Washington as president-elect in 1860.

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The written remarks which General Dwight Eisenhower would have sent to Washington and London in case D-Day ended in failure.

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A tragedy: The former flag of Louisville, Kentucky (left) and what replaced it in 2003 (right).

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The Alabama State Capitol during the centennial celebration of Jefferson Davis's inauguration as the first and only Confederate President, February 18th, 1961. Attendees took part in games like beard growing contests and many even dressed in 1860s-era clothing. There was also a fireworks show.

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A sheet metal M1911A1 made as an experiment for weight reduction after World War II. Only 20 were ever crafted by Colt.

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The flag flown by a unit of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade which fought side-by-side with other international volunteers against the fascists during the Spanish Civil War. Of the 3,015 American volunteers who served in this brigade, 681 were killed in action or died of wounds or sickness.

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A funny photo of Senator John McCain catching himself after he nearly left the stage in the wrong direction after shaking hands with Senator Barack Obama. This was at the end of their final presidential debate at Hofstra University in New York in October, 2008.

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During the American Civil War, Mount Vernon was considered to be neutral ground by both sides. Union and Confederate troops often simultaneously toured the buildings and viewed George Washington's tomb even as fighting continued to rage in the neighboring countryside.

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RIP Harry Whittington, the man who Vice President Dick Cheney mistook for quail and shot in 2006.

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Only three presidents in American history have ever been impeached, and another resigned before he could be. Out of all the presidents who never were impeached, which one(s) do you feel deserved to be and why?

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A 5 year old Franklin Roosevelt meeting Grover Cleveland at the White House in 1887. FDR's visit with his father James was during a stressful day for President Cleveland, so the weary man told the young boy: I am making a strange wish for you: May you never become President of the United States.

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John Q. Adams was the only POTUS to meet both George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. He first met Washington when he was a child, and he met Lincoln in the House of Representatives after his presidency. Lincoln was among the representatives at Adams's bedside when he died on Capitol Hill in 1848.

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Drawings of Confederate flags captured by the Union Army at Antietam on September 17th, 1862. These drawings are from the diary of the Union Army map maker Robert Knox Sneden, who in 1863 became a prisoner of war. He survived, though he endured the conditions of Andersonville before he was exchanged

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The white linen dish towel that was flown as a makeshift flag of truce by one of General James Longstreet's staff officers during the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia at Appomattox, April 9th, 1865.

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George H.W. Bush enjoying himself as he fishes in the Florida surf, 1988.

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The ensign of the Confederate vessel CSS Shenandoah behind a model of the ship. This was the last sovereign Confederate flag to be lowered, as well as the only Confederate flag to ever circumnavigate the world during the war. The banner was lowered in Liverpool, England on November 6th, 1865.

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The speech which Richard Nixon would have given to the nation and to the world if Apollo 11 ended in a disaster.

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A two-year old John F. Kennedy Jr. enjoying himself in the pilot's seat of Marine One during a family weekend trip to Camp David on March 31st, 1963.

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A painting which commemorates the visit of General Eisenhower and Winston Churchill to the Gettysburg Battlefield in 1959.

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President Clinton after missing a putt on his first day of a vacation in Martha's Vineyard, August 1993.

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I see your Pancor Jackhammer and I raise you the Soviet Korobov TKB-022P experimental rifle.

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The view from Lee Harvey Oswald's window on November 27th, 1963 during a full recreation of the Kennedy assassination at Dealey Plaza. (1080 x 702)

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There has only been one President of the United States who spoke English as a second language. Martin Van Buren was raised by parents of Dutch descent and language, and he learned English while attending school.

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A flag allegedly flown by an unknown unit of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, Americans who volunteered in the Spanish Civil War on the Republican side.

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In 2007, the Blindlight production services company attempted to approach Bill Clinton and offer him the voice role of President John Henry Eden in the post-apocalyptic video game Fallout 3. Clinton's attorneys responded with what a Blindlight founder called: a candid and frank 'no thank you'.

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Adolf Hitler and his entourage paying their respects at Napoleon's tomb during his visit to recently-conquered Paris on June 24th, 1940.

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A very miscaptioned photo of William A. Johnson (1859 - 1943) - the last living American owned by a president. His mother was bought in 1843 by Andrew Johnson for $500 and William was born as Johnson's property years later. It's theorized that he may have been the offspring of Johnson's son, Robert.

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Given that they simultaneously served in the U.S. Congress for about 15 months, what are the chances that Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis could have met before the start of the civil war?

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Members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy posing with camp flag that was flown by General Thomas Stonewall Jackson during the American Civil War, date unidentified. [612x657]

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A U.S. M40A1 sniper rifle recovered from an Iraqi insurgent near Habbaniyah by Dark Horse snipers of 3rd BN, 5th Marines in 2006. The rifle was taken from a team of four snipers of 2nd BN, 4th Marines who were killed on a rooftop in Ramadi in 2004. More info in comments.

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Only one president was directly involved with the capture of an enemy vessel on the high seas. On March 11th, 1778, as the frigate USS Boston captured a British privateer vessel, John Adams personally took up arms to aid in the effort. His son John Quincy was also onboard but he stayed below decks.

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The last lunch Richard Nixon had at the White House before he resigned from the presidency on August 9th, 1974. The meal consists of canned pineapples topped with cottage cheese, and a glass of milk.

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The first photograph of Earth from space. It was taken by a camera onboard a modified German V-2 rocket launched by the United States on October 24th, 1946.

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Bush 43 with the nasty cut on his cheek which he got after he choked on a pretzel and briefly fell unconscious in January 2002. My mother always said 'when you're eating pretzels, chew before you swallow', Bush later said. Listen to your mother.

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Before his 1864 reelection campaign, Abraham Lincoln offered Major General Benjamin Butler the vice presidency. Butler, who aspired to become president one day, declined, jokingly saying that he would only accept if Lincoln promised that within three months after his inauguration, he would die.

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After the Battle of Germantown in 1777, the pet terrier of General Sir William Howe, Lila, got loose and entered General Washington's headquarters tent. After noticing Lila's collar had Howe's name on it, Washington had the dog fed and brushed before having it returned to Howe with a polite note.

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The bloodstained 36-star American flag that was used to cushion Abraham Lincoln's head minutes after he was shot by John Wilkes Booth on April 14th, 1865.

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Not sure if this has been mentioned here by Zach or anyone else before, but feast your eyes upon the SR-47. Early in the Afghanistan War, USSOCOM teams wanted M4A1s that would accept captured Taliban AK mags since those were in abundance, but only 7 prototypes were ever made before the program died.

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Who in this subreddit actually does support Robert Kennedy Jr.'s bid for the presidency next year, and why do you support him over other candidates?

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After being woken up in the early hours of August 2nd, 1923 and being sworn in by his father after President Harding's sudden death, the first thing that President Calvin Coolidge did was put his pajamas back on and go straight back to sleep.

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Ironically, Abraham Lincoln was said to be a big fan of John Wilkes Booth. Not only did the president watch him preform The Marble Heart at Ford's Theater on November 9th, 1863, he even invited Booth several times to come and meet him at the White House. Booth never responded to any of the offers.

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George Washington welcoming Abraham Lincoln into heaven in a memorial card made shortly after Lincoln's assassination.

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The 95-year old Union veteran Corporal Bazel Lemley and the 97-year old Confederate veteran Captain Robert Miles meeting Franklin Roosevelt during 75th anniversary commemorations at Antietam on September 17th, 1937. Both vets fought at Antietam in 1862.

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The Oval Office photographed on the day of Franklin Roosevelt's death, April 12th, 1945.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt holding an American-made M1891 Mosin-Nagant rifle in 1920. Information about this uniquely historical rifle is in the comments.

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In 1969, George W. Bush went on a date with First Daughter Tricia Nixon, though ultimately it did not go well for either of them. He would later remember the date when he went back to the White House as the 43rd president in 2001.

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The LeMat revolver owned by Confederate general P.G.T. Beauregard during the American Civil War. The weapon was presented to the general by Dr. Jean Alexandre Le Mat, the man who designed and patented it in 1856. Today, the weapon is on display in the American Civil War Museum in Richmond, VA.

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Statues of President Abraham Lincoln and President Jefferson Davis facing each other as part of the Kentucky State Memorial at the Vicksburg Battlefield in Mississippi. Busts of Union and Confederate generals from the Battle of Vicksburg flank them outside of the photograph.

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The flag-draped coffin of Zachary Taylor being reinterred with full honors after he was exhumed in 1991. The president's body was exhumed in order to determined whether he was assassinated or not. Arsenic was actually detected in samples of hair and fingernails, but they were too low to be lethal.

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The unmarked gravesite of John Frederick Parker - a Washington D.C. police officer whose inaction allowed John Wilkes Booth to murder Abraham Lincoln at Ford's Theater on April 14th, 1865.

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The Colt Model 1903 that Hideki Tojo used in his failed suicide attempt on September 11th, 1945. Saved by U.S. medics, Tojo was later convicted of war crimes and he was executed in '48. Tojo's pistol is now on display at the MacArthur Memorial in Norfolk, Virginia.

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Gonna ask this just for curiosity's sake - how do you think Donald Trump's presidency could have went had he done the impossible and won in 2000 instead of 2016?

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The Heilongjiang hand cannon - the oldest surviving firearm known to exist. The weapon is dated to no later than 1288 CE and it was most likely used by a Yuan soldier during the Mongol prince Nayan's failed rebellion in Manchuria against Kublai Khan, the emperor of the Yuan dynasty.

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A pair of smoothbore dueling pistols once gifted to Andrew Jackson. They are now in the collection of the National Museum of American History in Washington D.C.

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Woodrow Wilson attending the 50th anniversary celebrations of the Battle of Gettysburg, July 4th, 1913. From June 29th to July 4th, 1913, 53,407 Confederate and Union veterans from 47 states were in Gettysburg for celebrations and remembrance. It was the largest-ever Civil War reunion.

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President Kennedy with the First Lady, their daughter Caroline, his sister Jean Kennedy Smith, and his nephew Steve Smith Jr. on Halloween night, October 31st, 1962.

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The SR-47 rifle. Early in the Afghanistan War, USSOCOM teams wanted M4A1s that would accept captured Taliban AK mags since those were in abundance, but only 7 prototypes were ever made before the program died.

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Jimmy Carter in his family's peanut warehouse in Plains, Georgia during some time off from his 1976 presidential campaign.

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The battle flag of the Confederate Army's 28th Virginia Infantry Regiment which was captured by a Minnesotan soldier at Gettysburg on July 2nd, 1863. Its history since the war is featured in the comments.

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If there was a Mount Rushmore for Vice Presidents, which four do you think deserve to be on it?

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The Second American Revolution in 1861 was every bit as justified as the first one in 1775.

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Lyndon Johnson in the U.S. Navy during World War II. In June 1942, a sudden bathroom break by the future POTUS caused him to lose his observer’s seat on the Wabash Cannonball - a B-26 that was later shot down by Japanese forces in New Guinea. All onboard were killed.

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Cherokee veterans of Thomas's Legion of the Confederate Army with their flag during a reunion in New Orleans in 1903. Information about Thomas's Legion is in the comments.

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A flag which was once flown by Stonewall Jackson being held by three members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy during the 1950s. The flag was destroyed along with many war-era books and manuscripts in an arson attack on the UDC headquarters in Richmond, VA in 2020.

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A post-war photograph of Confederate veteran John Kennedy with the flag of his old unit, the Third Tennessee Infantry Regiment. Kennedy became one of the six original organizers of the Ku Klux Klan on December 24th, 1865.

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A memorial artwork of James Garfield, Abraham Lincoln, and William McKinley that was made not long after McKinley's assassination in 1901.

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Descendants of Confederate exiles during celebrations in Santa Barbara D'Oeste, Brazil in 2015 for the 150th anniversary of the end of the War of Northern Aggression. After the war, over 20,000 Confederates moved to Brazil. Their descendants still gather to celebrate their heritage each year.

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Statues of President Abraham Lincoln and President Jefferson Davis facing each other as part of the Kentucky State Memorial at the Vicksburg Battlefield in Mississippi. Busts of Union and Confederate generals from the Battle of Vicksburg flank them outside of the photograph.

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God bless those who fought for liberty in the American Revolution and the War of Southern Independence.

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Which other pre-Lincoln president(s) aside from John Tyler do you think would have sided with the Confederacy when the American Civil War began?

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A pair of early 19th century-era flintlocks from somewhere in the Balkans.

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Presidential tier list based only on what kind of video games they play

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Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton and Vice President George H.W. Bush sitting at a table with Alabama Governor George C. Wallace during a barbeque at Bush's estate in Kennebunkport, Maine in 1983.

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Alleged Confederate veteran Walter Williams laying in bed with a flag, circa 1959. Serious doubt has been casted as to whether Williams really did fight in the war, but if his claim is true then he was the last living veteran from either side of the conflict.

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A Human Confederate Flag during a pro-Confederate celebration in 1907. This image was taken at the now-desecrated Robert E. Lee Memorial in Richmond, Virginia. The five day long celebration of Southern liberty was held to mark the dedication of statues honoring J.E.B. Stuart and Jefferson Davis.

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Yankees: COnFeDErAtE sUPoRtERs aRe liKe nAzIs!!! Actual Confederate Supporters:

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President Gerald R. Ford signing Senate Joint Resolution 23 in front of the Lee Mansion in Arlington National Cemetery on August 5th, 1975. The resolution posthumously restored full U.S. citizenship on General Robert E. Lee who did not see it restored before his death in 1870.

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