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ASSOCIATED PRESS President-elect Barack Obama and his family will move this weekend into a suite at the Hay-Adams hotel across from the White House. **FILE**

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The Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge in February 2008. (The Washington Times) ** FILE **

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Taj Mahal hotel employees comfort each other after being rescued. A group calling itself the Deccan Mujahideen claimed responsibility for the attacks. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Fire engulfs a part of the Taj Hotel in Mumbai, India, early Thursday, Nov. 27, 2008. Teams of heavily armed gunmen stormed luxury hotels, a popular restaurant, hospitals and a crowded train station in coordinated attacks across India's financial capital Wednesday night, killing at least 78 people and taking Westerners hostage, police said. A previously unknown group, apparently Muslim militants, took responsibility for the attacks. (AP Photo/Gautam Singh)

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Rusty Humphries' World Famous Flash Cooked Roast Turkey recipe -- politics included. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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BARBARA L. SALISBURY/THE WASHINGTON TIMES Jim Hewes, a bartender for about 22 years at the Willard InterContinental's Round Robin Bar, researched the drinking habits of U.S. presidents to come up with a signature drink for each. A favorite of President Millard Fillmore was the brandy crusta (left). George Washington (right) preferred a blend of Madeira wine with fruit brandies and rye whiskey.

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After the Run for the Roses in Kentucky, the Round Robin Bar at the Willard InterContinental Hotel will be busy mixing drinks and starting its Race to the 200th Cup, with a release 100 limited-edition commemorative mint julep cups. (The Washington Times/File)

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Col. Theodore Roosevelt and the Rough Riders (above) captured San Juan Hill during the Spanish-American War in 1898.

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A homeless man sleeps on a bench in the park across the street from the Franklin School shelter in Washington, D.C. (Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times) **FILE**

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Reel tender Mo Laussie watches fiber-optic cable as he helps install the cable onto telephone poles in 2001 in Louisville, Colo.

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** FILE ** Obama supporters celebrate while watching election results at the Tune Inn on Capitol Hill in Washington on Tuesday, Nov. 4, 2008. (The Washington Times)

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Should President Obama don a Bill Clinton mask so he can hit the campaign trail? Barbara L. Salisbury/The Washington Times

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** FILE ** About 30,000 participants run along the Potomac River near the Lincoln Memorial during the annual 26.2-long Marine Corps Marathon in 2008. (The Washington Times)

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Tourists drive through fall foliage along Skyline Drive in the Shenandoah National Park. (Michael Connor / The Washington Times

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The German-built zeppelin flies over the Golden Gate Bridge, arriving in San Francisco on Oct. 25 to begin aerial tours of the Bay Area. The airship is the first of its kind to fly in the United States in more than 70 years. (Associated Press)

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A Navy photograph from July 21, 1997, shows the USS Constitution under sail for the first time in more than a century. The ship's defeat of the British frigate HMS Guerriere in 1812 proved America's prowess in naval warfare. In the drawing at right, the ship's gun crew prepares to battle the Guerriere.

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Alan Favors, 56, makes a call at a pay phone outside the Circle B Convenient Store, across the street from the east side of St. Elizabeth's Hospital on Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue in Southeast Washington, on Oct. 22, 2008. (Mary F. Calvert/The Washington Times)