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Prior to the mission, General Dwight Eisenhower wrote to soldiers, saying, “You are about to embark upon the Great Crusade... The hopes and prayers of liberty-loving people everywhere march with you.”
The Obama Presidential Center, which opens this week, has unveiled the first commissioned portrait of Barack and Michelle Obama.
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On June 13, 1967, President Lyndon Johnson nominated Thurgood Marshall to serve as an associate justice of the Supreme Court.
Two months later, the Senate confirmed the nomination in a 69 to 11 vote, making Marshall the first African American to serve on the high court.
On June 6, 1944, Allied forces launched the largest-ever seaborne invasion on the beaches of Normandy, France, as part of their effort to liberate Western Europe from Nazi occupation.
Speaking on the importance of journalism, Walter Cronkite once said, “Our job is only to hold up the mirror, to tell and show the public what has happened.”
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On June 8, 2011, White House photographer Pete Souza captured a photo of President Barack Obama and Vice President Joe Biden in the Oval Office before their weekly lunch.
“Freedom of the press is not just important to democracy, it is democracy.”
— Walter Cronkite
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The weekly routine, first established as a ritual by Jimmy Carter and Walter Mondale, was requested by Biden before they took office as a way to maintain a direct line to the president.
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.”
— Edward R. Murrow
“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country.”
— Theodore Roosevelt
