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Helen Thomas of UPI grabs President Johnson for a comment after Johnson and his wife had returned to Washington, D.C., from dedicating the George C. Marshall Research Library at Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va., on May 23, 1964. (UPI Photo)

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President Lyndon Johnson with the press at a news conference in the Oval Office. Helen Thomas of United Press International is at the rear with a pad and pen. Merriman Smith of UPI is third from right, without glasses. (Photo by Wally McNamee)