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Syrian President Bashar Assad speaks to parliament in Damascus, Syria, on Sunday, June 3, 2012. (AP Photo/SANA)
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Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt (left) greets U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton as she arrives for meetings at Rosenbad in Stockholm on Sunday, June 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Erik Martensson)
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Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip are seen on the Royal Barge as they pass the House of Commons and Big Ben during the Thames Diamond Jubilee River Pageant in London on Sunday, June 3, 2012. (AP Photo/Tim Hales)
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Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is seen in the defendant's cage as a judge reads the verdict on charges of complicity in the killing of protesters during last year's uprising that forced him from power, in Cairo on Saturday, June 2, 2012. (AP Photo/Egyptian State TV)
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This photo provided by RMT PR Management shows the cover of "What Really Happened," a memoir about Rielle Hunter, her relationship with former presidential candidate and Sen. John Edwards and their daughter. The memoir is set to be released June 26. Edwards and Hunter had an affair while the Democrat was running for the White House in 2008 and have a daughter together, Frances Quinn Hunter. (AP Photo/RMT PR Management)
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A member of the public is seen walking past a shop window with a display in honor of Britain's Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee in Durham, England, Thursday, May 31, 2012. AP Photo/Scott Heppell)
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In this video image taken from Egyptian State Television, 84-year-old former Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak is seen in the defendant's cage as a judge reads the verdict in on charges of complicity in the killing of protesters during last year's uprising that forced him from power, in Cairo, Egypt, Saturday, June 2, 2012. Egypt's ex-President Hosni Mubarak has been sentenced to life in prison after a court convicted him on charges of complicity in the killing of protesters during last year's uprising that forced him from power. (AP Photo/Egyptian State TV)
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President Franklin Roosevelt bestowed the nation's highest decoration posthumously upon Captain Richard E. Fleming, Marine pilot cited for heroic action in the Battle of Midway, when he handed the Congressional Medal of Honor to the flier's mother, Mrs. Michael E. Fleming, of St. Paul, Minn., in a ceremony at Washington, D.C. on Nov. 24, 1942. Standing between them at the White House is Lieut. Gen. Thomas Holcomb, commandant of the Marine Corps. (AP Photo/George R. Skadding)
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An American code-breaking machine known as an Enigma sits on display at the Cryptology Museum near Fort Meade, Maryland. This machine was used to send and receive encrypted messages to military forces during World War II. (The Washington Times/File)
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Retired Rear Adm. Donald "Mac" Showers, 92, shows his 1942 military registration card, or identification card, at his home in Arlington, Va., on November 22, 2011. Showers is one of the remaining survivors that helped lead the effort to break the Japanese code which resulted in a victory at battle of Midway in 1942. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)