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**FILE** President Obama listens Feb. 20, 2009, as Vice President Joe Biden speaks in the East Room of the White House. (Associated Press)

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President Barack Obama supporters celebrate with champagne outside of the White House in Washington following his re-election early Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Kelly Rodgers, 18, of Philadelphia, holds a sign saying "We Will Barack You" as people celebrate outside of the White House after President Barack Obama won re-election against Mitt Romney in the presidential election on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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People celebrate outside of White House on Pennsylvania Avenue after President Barack Obama won re-election against Mitt Romney in the presidential election in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 7, 2012. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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**FILE** President Obama stands with Bob Dylan before awarding him the Medal of Freedom during a May 29, 2012, ceremony in the East Room of the White House. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** In this April 5, 2011, file photo Israeli President Shimon Peres speaks to members of the media outside White House in Washington following his meeting with President Barack Obama. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

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David Axelrod (left), senior adviser for the Obama campaign, and David Plouffe, White House senior adviser, talk during a campaign event for President Obama on Nov. 2, 2012, at Springfield High School in Springfield, Ohio. (Associated Press)

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** FILE ** Then-Chinese Vice President Xi Jinping (left) meets on Feb. 14, 2012, with President Obama in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (Associated Press)

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Fala, the pet Scottie of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, obliges news photographers as he poses outside the White House on April 7, 1942 for his second birthday. (AP Photo/grs)

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President Barack Obama pets the family dog Bo, a Portuguese water dog, outside the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, March, 15, 2012. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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This video image provided by the White House shows first lady Laura Bush with Barney and Miss Beazley appearing in the "Barney Cam" holiday doggie video. (AP Photo/White House)

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President Clinton holds Socks the cat as he and Mrs. Clinton hosted Washington area elementary school children at the White House Friday Dec. 20, 1996 where the president read "Twas the Night Before Christmas." (AP Photo/Ruth Fremson)

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In this Aug. 26, 1994 file photo, first cat Socks rests in the grass outside the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. (AP Photo/Marcy Nighswander, File)

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President George H. Bush is greeted by his dog Ranger at the White House on Sunday night, Jan. 4, 1993, in Washington after returning from a 19,000-mile journey abroad. (AP Photo/ Wilfredo Lee)

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President Clinton stops for a visit with first family cat, Socks as he arrived back to the White House in Washington on Thursday, Oct. 21, 1993 after speaking to a business group on his health care package. (AP Photo/Greg Gibson)