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May16

Umbrella-toting Marines protect Obama, Turkish PM from raindrops→

When you’re the President of the United States, you don’t hold your own umbrella. Highly trained Marines do it for you. There was an unexpected bit of rain during a joint news conference with Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan in the White House Rose Garden on Thursday. As drops fell on the two world […]

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cjchivers: Service. Whatever you think of President Obama, or of the American presidency itself, on many levels this is a strange use of a U.S. Marine. To be clear: Presented with photographs showing a long and robust precedent, and establishing that many Presidents have enjoyed this same and particular service, I’d wager that most past and present grunts would say the same thing.  ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPH By Doug Mills. The New York Times. Today, accompanying this.

cjchivers:

Service.

Whatever you think of President Obama, or of the American presidency itself, on many levels this is a strange use of a U.S. Marine.

To be clear: Presented with photographs showing a long and robust precedent, and establishing that many Presidents have enjoyed this same and particular service, I’d wager that most past and present grunts would say the same thing. 

ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPH

By Doug Mills. The New York Times. Today, accompanying this.

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