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Professional tour guide Karima Hurt, dressed as a “Colonial Dame,†takes a pause inside of the Occidental Grill before she leads a group of tourist on a hunted pub crawl around the White House on Saturday, May 17. Khalid Naji-Allah/ Special to The Washington Times

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This undated photo provided by Organ Mountains Desert Peaks National Monument shows the landscape at the Organ Mountain Desert Peaks National Monument, near Las Cruces, N.M. Following a nearly decade-long campaign to gain protection for the Organ Mountains in southern New Mexico, the White House says President Obama will designate the area a national monument. (AP Photo/Organ Mountains Desert Peaks National Monument, Lisa Mandelkern)

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This undated photo provided by Organ Mountains Desert Peaks National Monument shows the landscape at the Organ Mountain Desert Peaks National Monument, near Las Cruces, N.M. Following a nearly decade-long campaign to gain protection for the Organ Mountains in southern New Mexico, the White House says President Obama will designate the area a national monument. (AP Photo/ Les KcKee)

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This undated photo provided by Organ Mountains Desert Peaks National Monument shows the landscape at the Organ Mountain Desert Peaks National Monument, near Las Cruces, N.M. Following a nearly decade-long campaign to gain protection for the Organ Mountains in southern New Mexico, the White House says President Obama will designate the area a national monument. (AP Photo/Organ Mountains Desert Peaks National Monument, Les KcKee)

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This undated photo provided by Organ Mountains Desert Peaks National Monument shows the landscape at the Organ Mountain Desert Peaks National Monument, near Las Cruces, N.M. Following a nearly decade-long campaign to gain protection for the Organ Mountains in southern New Mexico, the White House says President Obama will designate the area a national monument. (AP Photo/ Lisa Mandelkern)

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White House Press Secretary Jay Carney listens during his daily news briefing at the White House in Washington, Monday, May 19, 2014. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)

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Aaron Sorenson, with the Free Amir campaign, signs a poster during a rally in Lafayette Park across the street from the White House, in Washington, Monday, May 19, 2014, with family members and supporters of Amir Hekmati, a former Marine incarcerated in Iran since 2011, calling for his release. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Former Marine Terry Mahoney speaks in Lafayette Park across the street from the White House, in Washington, Monday, May 19, 2014, during a gathering of family members and supporters of Amir Hekmati, a former Marine from Michigan incarcerated in Iran since 2011. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Ramy Kurdi listens as left, as his wife Sarah Hekmati, sister of Amir Hekmati, a former Marine from Michigan incarcerated in Iran since 2011, speaks in Lafayette Park across the street from the White House in Washington, Monday, May 19, 2014, during a gather of family members and supporters calling for Amir Hekmati's freedom. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

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Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., right, accompanied by Rep. James McGovern, D-Mass., holds a poster with the image and story of one of his constituents, Amir Hekmati, a former Marine incarcerated in Iran since 2011, during a gathering in Lafayette Park across the street from the White House in Washington, Monday, May 19, 2014, with family members and supporters calling for Hekmati's release. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)