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Feb. 4, 2009 “The President talks with aides during an impromptu meeting around the Resolute desk.” (Official White House photo by Pete Souza)

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President Barack Obama sits on the edge of the Resolute Desk during a meeting in the Oval Office, Dec. 19, 2012. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

President Barack Obama confers in the Oval Office with, from left, Counselor to the President Pete Rouse, Director of Legislative Affairs Rob Nabors, Special Advisor Phil Schiliro, and Senior Advisor David Plouffe, Feb. 24, 2011. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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President Barack Obama rests his foot on the Resolute Desk during a call with British Prime Minister David Cameron in the Oval Office, Dec. 21, 2010. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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President Barack Obama rests his foot on a desk as he talks with Phil Schiliro, assistant to the President for legislative affairs, in the Outer Oval Office, Oct. 29, 2009. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)

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** FILE ** Stubbs, the mayor of Talkeetna, Alaska, a tourist town near Denali National Park, is recovering at a veterinarian's office in Wasilla, Alaska, after being injured in a fight with a dog on Saturday night, Aug. 31, 2013. (AP Photo/Sandy Bubar)

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U.S. President Barack Obama waves upon arrival at Arlanda Airport, in Stockholm, Sweden, Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013, with the Swedish flag and guard of honor in the background. President Barack Obama is opening a three-day overseas trip with a stop in the Swedish capital of Stockholm. Air Force One touched down Wednesday morning after an overnight flight from Washington. During his stay in Stockholm, Obama will meet with Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt and King Carl XVI Gustaf. He will also meet with other Nordic leaders from Finland, Denmark, Iceland and Norway. (AP Photo/Scanpix Sweden, Anders Wiklund)

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Russian President Vladimir Putin gestures while speaking to John Daniszewski, the Associated Press's Senior Managing Editor for International News, during an AP interview at Putin's Novo-Ogaryovo residence outside Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013. Putin sought to downplay the current chill in the U.S.-Russian relations and said that the two countries need to cooperate on a range of issues in the interests of global stability, (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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Secretary of State John Kerry, left, talks to Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013, prior to the start of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Syria where they testified. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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A book by George W. Bush adviser Tevi Troy explores the kinship between pop culture and the presidency. (REGNERY BOOKS)

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President Obama met with National Security Adviser Susan E. Rice (left) and House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, in the Cabinet Room of the White House on Tuesday before meeting with members of Congress to discuss Syria and a proposed military strike. (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

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Sen. James E. Risch, Idaho Republican (left) and Sen. Bob Corker, Tennessee Republican, listen to testimony from Secretary of State John F. Kerry. Mr. Risch said that he was reluctant partly because of "where this is going to go, as to the limit that we're going to put on it."

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** FILE ** House Speaker John A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, speaks President Obama. (Associated Press photographs)

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From right to left, Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Robert Menendez, D-N.J., Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., the ranking member, Sen. James Risch, R-Idaho, and Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., listen to testimony from Secretary of State John Kerry, and Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel at a hearing on President Obama's request for congressional authorization for military intervention in Syria, a response to last month's alleged sarin gas attack in the Syrian civil war, on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2013. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)