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President Barack Obama pauses while speaking about National Security Agency (NSA)surveillance, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, at the Justice Department in Washington. Seeking to calm a furor over U.S. surveillance, the president called for ending the government's control of phone data from hundreds of millions of Americans and immediately ordered intelligence agencies to get a secretive court's permission before accessing the records. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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President Barack Obama Talks about National Security Agency (NSA)surveillance, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, at the Justice Department in Washington. Seeking to calm a furor over U.S. surveillance, the president called for ending the government's control of phone data from -hundreds of millions of Americans and immediately ordered intelligence agencies to get a secretive court's permission before accessing the records. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
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President Barack Obama talks about National Security Agency (NSA)surveillance, Friday, Jan. 17, 2014, at the Justice Department in Washington.Seeking to calm a furor over U.S. surveillance, the president called for ending the government's control of phone data from -hundreds of millions of Americans and immediately ordered intelligence agencies to get a secretive court's permission before accessing the records. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)
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Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., testifies at a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Voting Rights Act in Washington in July, 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, File)
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Aliya Logan, 8, and her mother, Lisa, pose for a photograph in front of the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial on the National Mall on Sunday. (andrew harnik/the Washington Times)
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ANOTHER BRICK in the wall: A soldier in East Germany stands guard as the Berlin Wall is built, dividing the city from 1961 to 1989.
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DIVIDE: West Berlin police patrol the wall, the site of frequent confrontations that threatened to erupt into major incidences. Soviet communists added a wooden fence to impede a clear view into the East Berlin zone. (Associated press photographs)
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President Kennedy stands on an observation platform near Checkpoint Charlie to look over the Berlin Wall toward East Berlin. Kennedy delivered his famous speech "I am a Berliner" in front of the city hall in West Berlin during that trip.
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Cold Warrior: Secretary of State Dean Rusk sent a flurry of urgent cables to officials in Berlin in August 1962 trying to head off an escape that appeared to be doomed.
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Associated Press photographs The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., during a trip to Berlin, was allowed to cross the border at Checkpoint Charlie where he preached about the struggle for civil right in the U.S. to an overflowing crowd at St. Mary's Church at Alexander Square.
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"We have carefully reviewed this program and have found it to be legal and effective," Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, and Rep. Mike Rogers, Michigan Republican, said in a joint statement after Mr. Obama's speech.
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"We have carefully reviewed this program and have found it to be legal and effective," Sen. Dianne Feinstein, California Democrat, and Rep. Mike Rogers, Michigan Republican, said in a joint statement after Mr. Obama's speech.
