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FILE - In this April 20, 2011, file photo, President Barack Obama gestures during a town hall meeting at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto, Calif. The year Obama came into office, the White House joined Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Vimeo, iTunes and MySpace. In 2013, the first lady posted her first photo to Instagram. In 2015, Obama sent his first tweet from @POTUS, an account which now has 11 million followers. This year, the White House posted its first official story on Snapchat, a promotion of the president’s State of the Union address. White House officials said the focus on social media is simply a strategy of going to where people get their news. (AP Photo/Marcio Jose Sanchez, File)
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FILE - In this April 9, 2012 file photo, President Barack Obama does pushups during the annual White House Easter Egg Roll at the White House in Washington. From his campaign fist bump to his theatrical mic drop at the last White House correspondents’ dinner, Barack Obama ruled as America’s pop culture president. His two terms played out like a running chronicle of the trends of our times: slow-jamming the news with Jimmy Fallon, reading mean tweets with Jimmy Kimmel, filling out his NCAA basketball bracket on ESPN, cruising with Jerry Seinfeld on “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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White House Land Mines Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times
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FILE -- In this Nov. 9, 2015 file photo, President Barack Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Doubling down on its public break with the Obama administration, a furious Israeli government said, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2016, that it has "ironclad" information from Arab sources that Washington actively helped craft last week's U.N. resolution declaring Israeli settlements illegal. The allegations further poison the increasingly toxic atmosphere between Israel and the outgoing Obama administration in the wake of Friday's vote, and raise questions about whether the White House might take further action. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
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FILE -- In this Nov. 9, 2015 file photo, President Barack Obama meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington. Doubling down on its public break with the Obama administration, a furious Israeli government said, Tuesday, Dec. 27, 2016, that it has "ironclad" information from Arab sources that Washington actively helped craft last week's U.N. resolution declaring Israeli settlements illegal. The allegations further poison the increasingly toxic atmosphere between Israel and the outgoing Obama administration in the wake of Friday's vote, and raise questions about whether the White House might take further action. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
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George Washington (White House image)
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FILE - In this Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016 file photo a LEGO model of the White House, one of fifty-six LEGO gingerbread houses, one for each state and territory, is displayed in the trees in the State Dinning Room at the White House during a preview of the 2016 holiday decor, in Washington. White House holiday displays were created this year by Lego's master builders, a team of seven at the company's US headquarters in Enfield, Conn., who devote hours and tens of thousands of toy bricks to projects that go on display around the world. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
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In this June 14, 2016, file photo, first lady Michelle Obama and Oprah Winfrey have a discussion on Trailblazing the Path for the Next Generation of Women during the White House Summit on the United State of Women in Washington. Mrs. Obama sat down in The White House with Winfrey for a White House interview that was broadcast on CBS Dec. 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen, File)
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In this photo taken Oct. 18, 2016, President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama waits to greet Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi and his wife Agnese Landini on the North Portico for a State Dinner at the White House in Washington. What does Michelle Obama do next?After eight years as a high-profile advocate against childhood obesity, a sought-after talk show guest, a Democratic power player and a style maven, the first lady will have her pick of options when she leaves the White House next month. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
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The image provided by Architectural Digest shows the Yellow Oval Room in the White House in Washington in a cover story about . Designer Michael S. Smith specified a Donald Kaufman paint for the Yellow Oval Room. Artworks by Paul Cézanne and Daniel Garber flank the mantel. Smith mellowed the Yellow Oval Room with smoky browns, greens, golds, and blues. The 1978 Camp David peace accords were signed at the antique Denis-Louis Ancellet desk, front left. President Barack Obama likes to say the White House is the “people’s house.” Architectural Digest photos are giving the public its first glimpse of private areas on the second floor of the White House that Obama, his wife, Michelle, daughters Malia and Sasha and family dogs Bo and Sunny have called home for nearly eight years. (Michael Mundy/Architectural Digest via AP)
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Illustration on Petraeus and a White House pardon by M. Ryder/Tribune Content Agency
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The sun rises over the White House in Washington, Saturday, June 11, 2016. The primaries have ended. The nominees are picked. And the general election begins with Hillary Clinton already ahead of Donald Trump in the race for the 270 Electoral College votes needed to win the White House. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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George Washington (Image: The White House) ** FILE **
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Industrial hemp activists make their case at an "all hemp" luncheon staged in an elegant townhouse called Elizabeth's on L, just north of the White House.
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FILE - In this April 29, 2016 file photo, first lady Michelle Obama speaks to high school students from across the Washington D.C. area in the State Dining Room of the White House in Washington, as part of the International Jazz Day celebration. Michelle Obama plans to address Native American high school graduates during a commencement speech that comes as she attempts to spotlight tribal youth in the final months of her husband’s presidency. The first lady’s commencement address Thursday, May 26, 2016, at the Santa Fe Indian School is part of an Obama initiative aimed at removing “barriers to success” for Native American youth, who the White House says make up the nation’s “most vulnerable population.” (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster, File)
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Melissa Rogers, special assistant to the president and executive director of the White House Faith-based Neighborhood Partnerships
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President Barack Obama, joined by the Easter Bunny, greets members of the audience on the South Lawn at the White House Easter Egg Roll at the White House in Washington, Monday, March 28, 2016. Thousands of children gathered at the White House for the annual Easter Egg Roll which features live music, sports courts, cooking stations, storytelling, and Easter egg rolling. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)
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President Barack Obama, left, with Vice President Joe Biden, and Ireland Prime Minister Enda Kenny, right, with his wife Fionnuala Kenny, hold up a bowl of shamrocks during a reception in honor of St. Patrick's Day in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, March 15, 2016. Obama is celebrating his eighth St. Patrick's Day in the White House. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)
