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President George Bush raises his right hand as he is sworn into office as the 41st president of the United States by Chief Justice William Rehnquist outside the west front of the Capitol on Jan. 20, 1989. First lady Barbara Bush holds the bible for her husband. Former President Reagan is in the background. (AP Photo/Bob Daugherty)

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President-elect George Bush waves to the Houston rally honoring him while surrounded by his family after his election to the nation's top office, Nov. 9, 1988. (AP Photo)

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Republican running mates George H. W. Bush, center, and Sen. Dan Quayle, third from right, begin the long campaign trial at a rally in Quayle's hometown, Friday, Aug. 20, 1988 Huntington, Ind. Bush's wife, Barbara Bush , left, Quayle's wife, Marilyn Quayle, right, and daughter Corinne Quayle, joined them at the rally. (AP Photo/Scott Applewhite)

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Vice President George H. W. Bush, second from left, with his wife Barbara Bush, looking on at right, addresses supporters during an Over the Top rally, Tuesday, May 4, 1988, Washington, D.C. Bush, who clinched the Republican presidential nomination last week, waited until Tuesday to celebrate his success and wins in uncontested Indiana, Ohio and the District of Columbia primary races. Bush's son, George W. Bush is second from right. The man on the left is unidentified. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi)

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Vice President George Bush addresses the Republican National Convention to accept its nomination for a second term in Dallas, Thursday, Aug. 23, 1984. (AP Photo)

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President Ronald Reagan and Vice President George Bush discuss the formation of the President's Task Force on Regulatory Relief, which will be headed by Bush, over lunch in the Oval Office at the White House in Washington on Thursday, Jan. 22, 1981. (AP Photo)

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** FILE ** Republican candidate for President Ronald Reagan, left, and his running mate George H.W. Bush answer questions during a press conference Friday, July 26, 1980. (AP Photo/Wally Fong)

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George Bush beams as some of his family members applaud at the National Press Club in Washington on Tuesday, May 1, 1979 where he formally announced his candidacy for the Republican presidential nomination. From left are: John E., a son; Columba, a daughter-in-law; Marvin, a son; Dorothy, a daughter; Mrs. Barbara Bush, his wife; and Bush. (AP Photo/Taylor)

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George Bush is sworn in as new director of the Central Intelligence Agency by Supreme Court Associate Justice Potter Stewart, left, as Mrs Barbara Bush and President Gerald Ford, at right, look on at CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., January 30, 1976. Bush succeeds William Colby who retired. (AP Photo)

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George Bush, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, looks through papers during the adoption of the agenda at the United Nations General Assembly at the headquarters in New York, Sept. 22, 1971. The U.S. and 16 other countries called on the General Assembly to seat Communist China in the United Nations while permitting Nationalist China to remain. (AP Photo)

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George Bush of Houston, Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate, waves to backers who cheer him after he addressed the Republican State Convention in Austin, Texas, Sept. 15, 1964. Bush seeks the seat held by Sen. Ralph Yarborough. (AP Photo)

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Vice President Joe Biden, left, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., second from left, House Speaker John Boehner of Ohio, second from right, and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada, right, watch during a ceremony for Sen. Daniel Inouye, D-Hawaii, the second-longest-serving senator in history, as he lies in state in the Capitol Rotunda in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh)

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Naftali Bennett, head of the Jewish Home party, speaks in Ashdod, Israel, on Wednesday, Dec. 26, 2012. Mr. Bennett, the charismatic new leader of Israel's Jewish religious right, is siphoning a large chunk of votes from the prime minister's party, according to polls ahead of Jan. 22 election. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)