White House

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President Obama returns a Marine honor guard's salute as he steps off the Marine One helicopter and walks on the South Lawn at the White House in Washington on Dec. 27, 2012, as he returned early from his Hawaii vacation for meetings on the fiscal cliff. (Associated Press)

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Former President George H. W. Bush talks to the media during an impromptu visit of the Brady Press Briefing room at the White House, Saturday, Jan. 22, 2005 in Washington. (AP Photo/Lawrence Jackson)

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President and Mrs. George Bush are given a send-off by White House staffers Monday morning on the South Lawn of the White House as they departed to fly to Indianapolis, Ind., and then on to the Republican Convention in Houston, Texas. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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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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A painter touches up the presidential viewing stand in front of the White House in Washington on Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012, as preparations continue for the Inauguration on Monday, Jan. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/J. David Ake)

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In this Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012, photo, items that will be presented to guests during the inauguration of President Barack Obama are seen inside Aunt Bea's Little White House B&B, in Washington, the six-room bed and breakfast in Northeast Washington still had two rooms available for the presidential inauguration as of the week before Christmas, with rates starting at $225 a night. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)