Politics

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The library features pine paneling that was reclaimed from the White House during the Hoover administration.

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** FILE ** People pass a military jet while attending a job fair for veterans on March 28, 2012, at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** A Secret Service agent stands Oct. 28, 2008, near then-presidential candidate Barack Obama at a rally in Norfolk, Va. (Associated Press)

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Iran's chief nuclear negotiator Saeed Jalili speaks April 14, 2012, to the media after daylong talks with six world powers in Istanbul, Turkey.

** FILE ** A display of colored items is seen March 14, 2012, at the Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia in Big Rapids, Mich. The museum says it has amassed the nation’s largest public collection of artifacts spanning the segregation era, from Reconstruction until the civil rights movement, and beyond. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this April 15, 2012, file photo, a North Korean vehicle carrying a missile passes by during a mass military parade in Pyongyang's Kim Il Sung Square to celebrate the centenary of the birth of the late North Korean founder Kim Il Sung. The enormous, 16-wheel truck used to carry the missile, likely came from China in a possible violation of U.N. sanctions meant to rein in Pyongyang's missile program, experts say. (AP Photo/David Guttenfelder, File)

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This photograph released by the Indian Ministry of Defense shows India’s Agni-V missile, with a range of 5,000 kilometers (3,100 miles), being launched from Wheeler Island off India's east coast, Thursday, April 19, 2012. (AP Photo/Indian Ministry of Defense)

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Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton speaks at a joint news conference with Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, at NATO Headquarters in Brussels, Belgium, Wednesday, April 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin, Pool)

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Washington Wizards center Nene shoots past Milwaukee Bucks power forward Drew Gooden during the second half in Washington, Wednesday, April 18, 2012. The Wizards won 121-112. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

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The vote by Republicans to require Americans to return the full amount of subsidy overpayment for health insurance exchange coverage was blasted Rep. Fortney Pete Stark, California Democrat. (Associated Press)

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Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker gives interviews after speaking to the Illinois Chamber of Commerce in Springfield. Mr. Walker says he is using Illinois and its many problems as an argument for keeping him in office with similar problems. The first-term Republican faces a recall election in June. (Associated Press)

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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has given the Treasury $41,600 in campaign donations connected to Harvey Whittemore. The FBI is investigating whether Mr. Whittemore reimbursed others for making campaign contributions. (Associated Press)

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Republican presidential candidate, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney speaks at a campaign stop in Charlotte, N.C., Wednesday, April 18, 2012. (AP Photo/Chuck Burton)

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A B-25 Mitchell bomber slowly moves down the tarmac before taking off from Wright-Patterson Air Force Base on Wednesday to commemorate the attack by the Doolittle Raiders on Japan in 1942. (Andrew S. Geraci/The Washington Times)

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House Majority Leader M. Kirkland Cox (left), a Republican, Sen. Charles J. Colgan, a Democrat, and independent Delegate Lacey E. Putney (right) confer Wednesday before Mr. Colgan changed his vote to approve the budget bill. (Associated Press)

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Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, a Republican presidential candidate, gives the thumbs-up to supporters at a campaign stop in Charlotte, N.C., on Wednesday. Mr. Romney is in demand on the campaign trail as candidates for the Senate and House seek his help on the stump. (Associated Press)

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Russian police officers block the area outside the parliament building in Moscow, Wednesday, April 11, 2012. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)

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Those who want to "Party Like the GSA in Vegas" should get a glittering entrance for guests suggests Shindigz, an events company that has already rolled out a General Services Adminstration-inspired party theme. (Image from Shindigz)

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Smoke billows after purported shelling by government forces in the Khaldiyeh district of Homs on Wednesday. A witness said security agents fired at protesters and a rights group reported that eight were wounded. (Shaam News Network via Associated Press)