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Ulysses S. Grant

Anti-abortion activists gather in front of the Supreme Court in Washington, Monday, Jan. 24, 2011, during a rally against Roe v. Wade. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) (Manuel Balce Ceneta)

You call this a "truce" on social issues?

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The Mac Classic II

Donald Trump and David Letterman on the Late Show in happier times

President Barack Obama pauses during his speech on America's energy security, in this photo taken Wednesday, March 30, 2011, at McDonough at Gymnasium Georgetown University in Washington. Americans grew increasingly pessimistic about the economy over the past month as soaring gas costs further strained tight family budgets. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais) (AP)

Natasha Lennard

Smoke rises from an uncontrolled wildfire burning near Possum Kingdom, Texas, Tuesday, April 19, 2011. (AP Photo/LM Otero) (AP)

Tea Party governor to Washington: Give me money!

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FILE - In this April 5, 2011 file photo, House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis. touts his 2012 federal budget during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington. The loudest objections to the GOP Medicare plan are coming from seniors, who swung to Republicans in last year's congressional elections, and many have been complaining at town-hall meetings with their representatives during the current congressional recess. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) (J. Scott Applewhite)

Don't be fooled: It's the same plan, with lipstick

U.S President Barack Obama waves at the Centro Cultural La Moneda Palace before his speech to Latin America in Santiago, Chile, Monday March 21, 2011. Obama is in Chile as part of a three-country, five-day tour of Latin America. (AP Photo/Roberto Candia) (AP)

Natasha Lennard

Bill Clinton in 1992 and Donald Trump in 2010.

Possible 2012 Republican presidential candidate, former U.S. Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania talks about the budget with students at New England College, Thursday, April 14, 2011 in Henniker, N.H. Republicans eyeing the White House assailed President Barack Obama's deficit-reduction proposal and cast him as a tax-raising liberal who is failing to lead a nation on the brink of fiscal catastrophe. (AP Photo/Jim Cole) (AP)

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Grover Norquist

Texas Governor Rick Perry makes remarks at the Conservative Political Action conference (CPAC) in Washington, February 11, 2011. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst (UNITED STATES - Tags: POLITICS) (Â© Jonathan Ernst / Reuters)

Alyssa Battistoni

President Barack Obama gestures as he speaks at a Democratic party fundraiser, the third of three such events he attended in one night, in New York, Wednesday, April 27, 2011. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) (AP)

Justin Spees, Teresa Cotsirilos

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Donald Trump in 1994

Pat Robertson

Pat Robertson's thinking about lesbians -- again

FILE - In this March 26, 2011 file photo, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks in Des Moines, Iowa. Public funding of presidential campaigns, a cornerstone of national politics since the 1970s, may soon go the way of other relics of the ear like long sideburns and lava lamps. Neither President Barack Obama nor any of the leading 2012 Republican contenders is expected to accept federal matching funds and the spending rules they impose. (AP Photo/Charlie Neibergall, File) (AP)

Newt Gingrich will not attend Fox debate after all

President Barack Obama pauses while speaking about his birth certificate, Wednesday, April 27, 2011, in the Brady Press Briefing Room at the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh) (AP)

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Palestinians wave flags and chant slogans in support of a reconciliation between the rival Fatah and Hamas movements, in Gaza City, Wednesday, April 27, 2011. Palestinians have reached initial agreement on reuniting their rival governments in the West Bank and Gaza, officials from both sides said Wednesday, a step that would remove a main obstacle in the way of peace efforts with Israel. (AP Photo/Adel Hana) (AP)

Natasha Lennard

Maintenance man David Lee of Arvada, Colo., puts the finishing touches on a sign featuring President Barack Obama for a sales lot for pre-owned vehicles along Interstate 70 in the northwest Denver suburb of Wheat Ridge, Colo., on Friday, Nov. 20, 2009

Birtherism, race and ... Bill Clinton

Ben Stein

Ben Stein loses a speaking gig for sexist jokes

A young Utah or Colorado mine worker

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