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President Barack Obama, first lady Michelle Obama with their children Malia and Sasha during their tour of Grand Canyon National Park, in Phoenix, Ari...

President Barack Obama, and his daughter Malia look over Hopi Point during their tour of Grand Canyon National Park, in Phoenix, Ariz., on Sunday, Aug...

Senator Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) at a Lion's Club lunch in Malvern, Ark., in August 2009. She has avoided town-hall-style meetings on health policy. W...

Rahm Emanuel, White House Chief of Staff in Washington in July 2009. Seven months after moving into his office in the West Wing, Emanuel is emerging a...

Rahm Emanuel, White House Chief of Staff, listens as President Barack Obama speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House on Friday, August 7, 2009 in...

(NYT8) BELGRADE, MT HEALTHCARE OBAMA 4 President Barack Obama makes the case for an overhaul of health care at a town hall event in Belgrade, Montan...

(NYT7) BELGRADE, MT HEALTHCARE OBAMA 3 President Barack Obama makes the case for an overhaul of health care at a town hall event in Belgrade, Montan...

(NYT1) ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, MD HEALTHCARE-OBAMA President Barack Obama with wife Michelle Obama, and daughters Malia Obama, 11, and Sasha Obama,...

Kevin Geiken, left, the deputy field director in Iowa for Organizing for America, at a health care session in Davenport, Iowa on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 200...

Members of Organizing for America, a group of Obama supporters, discuss health care strategy in Davenport, Iowa on Tuesday, Aug. 11, 2009. As the heal...

In Des Moines, Iowa, Pat Walters made telephone calls to Democrats to rally support for the Obama health care plan on Wednesday, Aug. 12, 2009. As the...

(NYT2) ANDREWS AIR FORCE BASE, MD HEALTHCARE OBAMA 2 President Barack Obama with wife Michelle Obama, and daughters Malia Obama, 11, and Sasha Obama...

(NYT9) BELGRADE, MT HEALTHCARE OBAMA 5 President Barack Obama listens to a citizen as he makes the case for an overhaul of health care at a town hal...

Ashraf Ghani, a candidate for president of Afghanistan (facing camera), is hugged as during a meeting with members of the Kuchi tribe in Kabul, Aug....

Ashraf Ghani, a candidate for president of Afghanistan, stops to bathe for absolution and prayer outside Jalalabad, July 29, 2009. Whether wrapped in...

Ashraf Ghani, center, a candidate for president of Afghanistan, greets members of the Kuchi tribe in Kabul, Aug. 7, 2009. Whether wrapped in a shawl...

Les Paul performed at Carnegie Hall in New York during a celebration of his 90th birthday in 2005. Paul, the guitarist and inventor who changed the co...

Ashraf Ghani, center, a candidate for president of Afghanistan, after bathing in a river for absolution and prayer outside Jalalabad, July 29, 2009. W...

Ashraf Ghani, center, a candidate for president of Afghanistan, speaks with people on the street in Kabul, Aug. 6, 2009. Whether wrapped in a shawl f...

Eunice Kennedy Shriver, right, with Lady Harlach, wife of the British ambassador to the U.S., during a gala in New York, Nov. 11, 1964. Eunice Kennedy...

California gubernatorial candidate Arnold Schwarzenegger is joined by his mother-in-law Eunice Kennedy Shriver during a campaign rally in Huntington B...

Eunice Kennedy Shriver danced with children at a "Dancethon" benefit for the Special Olympics in New York on November 22, 1981. Eunice Kennedy Shriver...

Eunice Kennedy Shriver and her husband Sargent Shriver with disabled youngsters on the basketball court at the New York Athletic Club on February 28,...

Eunice Kennedy Shriver and her husband Sargent Shriver, attending a party at the Spanish Embassy in Washington, D.C. in October 1967. Eunice Kennedy S...

Judge Sonia Sotomayor listens to opening statements from U.S. Senators during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washin...

Judge Sonia Sotomayor speaks during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on Thursday, July 16, 2009 in Washi...

Judge Sonia Sotomayor laughs during an exchange with Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.) about the old "Perry Mason" television show during her confirmation hea...

President Barack Obama giving a statement at the White House about Judge Sonia Sotomayor's confirmation to the Supreme Court on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009...

Judge Sonia Sotomayor speaks during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on Monday, July 13, 2009 in Washing...

Edwin Torres outside State Supreme Court in Manhattan in July 2009. "It is beyond anybody's imagination when I started that a Puerto Rican could ascen...

Sen. John McCain on an elevator at the Capitol on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009. McCain, a Republican, had opposed Judge Sonia Sotomayor's nomination. Voting...

A collection of portraits of Judge Sonia Sotomayor during her fourth day of confirmation hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee in Washington,...

Judge Sonia Sotomayor speaks during her confirmation hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, July 14, 2009 in Washin...

"We feel pride that someone from a background like ours achieved something so enormous," said Orlando Plaza, the co-owner of Camaradas el Barrio, a ba...

Judge Sonia Sotomayor outside her home in New York on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009. Voting largely along party lines, the Senate on Thursday confirmed Sotom...

Judge Sonia Sotomayor outside her home in New York on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009. Voting largely along party lines, the Senate on Thursday confirmed Sotom...

(NYT25) NEW YORK SOTOMAYOR CONFIRM 7 Sonia Sotomayor left the federal courthouse in Manhattan on Thu., Aug. 6, 2009, after she was confirmed to the...

Senators Patrick J. Leahy, left, and Charles E. Schumer, both Democrats, talked after the vote on Capitol Hill in Washington on Thursday, Aug. 6, 2009...

FILE -- Sen. Edward Kennedy on Capitol Hill in Washington, in 1968. Edward M. Kennedy, a son of one of the most storied families in American politics,...

Sen. Edward Kennedy, center, with his wife Joan Kennedy, speaks to reporters after testifying in a proceeding investigating the death of Mary Jo Kopec...

FILE -- Sen. Edward Kennedy on Capitol Hill in Washington, in 1968. Edward M. Kennedy, a son of one of the most storied families in American politics,...

FILE -- Sen. Edward Kennedy on Capitol Hill in Washington, in 1968. Edward M. Kennedy, a son of one of the most storied families in American politics,...

On a July night, American soldiers and Afghan security forces raided four homes in the Baraki Barak district, detaining seven men, including the man a...

Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah traveled by helicopter to campaign in the town of Aybak, Afghanistan on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009. (Tyle...

Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah traveled by helicopter to campaign in the town of Aybak, Afghanistan on Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009. (Tyle...

Euna Lee is reunited with her daughter Hana as husband Michael Saldate looks on after Lee arrived from North Korea to Burbank airport, Wednesday, Aug....

Former President Bill Clinton looks on as Laura Ling makes a statement after her release from North Korean detention after arrival to Burbank airport,...

Laura Ling as she steps of the plane after arriving to Burbank, Wednesday, Aug. 5, 2009. Ling and fellow journalist Euna Lee returned home Wednesday a...

Euna Lee, right, is reunited with her daughter Hana and husband Michael Saldate after arriving from North Korea at the airport in Burbank on Wednesday...

Former President Bill Clinton looks on as Laura Ling makes a statement after her release from North Korean detention after arrival to Burbank airport,...