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Debris fills a garage in Southeast Washington where lobbyist Ashley Turton, the wife of White House adviser Dan Turton, was found dead inside a burning car on Monday, Jan. 20, 2011. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama join government employees on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington on Monday, Jan. 10, 2011, to observe a moment of silence for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the other victims of an assassination attempt against her. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama are joined by government employees on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Monday, Jan. 10, 2011, to observe a moment of silence for Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and the other victims of an assassination attempt against her. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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President Obama applauds as William Daley, a former commerce secretary and his new White House chief of staff, delivers a statement in the East Room of the White House on Thursday. (Associated Press)

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President Obama listens as William Daley, the new White House chief of staff, makes a statement in the East Room of the White House in Washington on Thursday, Jan. 6, 2011. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite) ** FILE **

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White House press secretary Robert Gibbs, who joined President Obama's staff when Mr. Obama was running for the U.S. Senate, announces Wednesday that he will join other high-ranking staffers leaving the presidential staff. (Associated Press)

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White House press secretary Robert Gibbs gestures during the daily briefing at the White House on Monday, Dec. 20, 2010 in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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President Barack Obama, followed by, from second from left, Gen. David Petraeus, Defense Secretary Robert Gates, Vice President Joe Biden, and Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen, walks to the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, Wednesday, June 23, 2010, to announce that Petraeus would replace Gen. Stanley McChrystal. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)

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** FILE ** Dan Choi (center) falls as he is arrested for handcuffing himself to the fence outside the White House in Washington during a protest against the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy on Nov. 15, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais, File)

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**FILE** In this photo from Feb. 1, President Obama makes a statement in the Grand Foyer of the White House. From left: Council of Economic Council Chair Christina Romer; Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner; the president; Budget Director Peter Orszag and chief economic adviser Lawrence Summers. (Associated Press)

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President Barack Obama walks away from the podium in the Brady Press Briefing room in the White House in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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ASSOCIATED PRESS Rahm Emanuel, who spent two years as White House chief of staff, campaigns at the Berghoff Restaurant before a news conference Thursday. Polls show him leading the race to be mayor of Chicago.

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White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan assured the press that the federal government "is doing everything to prevent terrorists from carrying out cowardly attacks."

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White House counterterrorism adviser John Brennan assured the press that the federal government "is doing everything to prevent terrorists from carrying out cowardly attacks."

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President Barack Obama, left, shakes hands with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., right, after signing the $858 billion tax deal into law in a ceremony in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex, Friday, Dec. 17, 2010 in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Presidential press secretary Robert Gibbs gestures during the daily briefing at the White House on Monday, Dec. 20, 2010, in Washington. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

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President Obama, left, shakes hands with Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, right, after signing the $858 billion tax deal into law in a ceremony in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building on the White House complex, Friday, Dec. 17, 2010 in Washington. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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President Barack Obama updates the status of the tax-cut deal struck with congressional Republicans, at the White House in Washington, Monday, Dec. 13, 2010. The legislation would avert a Jan. 1 increase in income taxes for nearly all Americans, including middle and high earners. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

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Associated Press POWWOW: President Obama greets guests after speaking Thursday at the White House Tribal Nations Conference at the Interior Department.

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Associated Press World War II-era Navajo Code Talkers listen to President Obama speak Thursday at the White House Tribal Nations Conference, which was attended by representatives of the nation's 565 recognized American Indian tribes.