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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) gets results! The director of the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery, Martin Sullivan, has just written back to Sanders' plea for a little logical cohesion in the caption hanging beneath the museum's new portrait of George W. Bush.
The portrait's caption, ...
foxnews.com - 1/11/2009
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MONTPELIER, Vt. -- U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt.,
is objecting to wording accompanying a portrait of President...
George Bush installed at the Smithsonian's National Portrait Gallery in Washington. Sanders, a strong opponent of the Iraq war, has asked ...
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Senator Asks Smithsonian to Change Text Next to Bush ...
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latimesblogs.latimes.com - 1/12/2009
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The National Portrait Gallery in Washington last month
unveiled its newest acquisition -- Robert Anderson's official portrait...
of President Bush, seated by a vase of white lilies, which traditionally symbolize purity. And at least one U.S. senator is ...
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Bush portrait label assailed
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Caption On President Bush's Portrait Linking 9/11 to Iraq to be Corrected
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... Talking Points Memo reports that today Sullivan, who attributed the wording of the caption to limited space, wrote back to Sanders and assured the Senator that the error would be corrected. ...
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... for some far-right bloggers who want the gun group to help defeat Eric Holder's nomination. * The National Portrait Gallery was going to feature a caption under George W. Bush's portrait noting that the attacks of Sept. 11 "led to" the war in Iraq. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) made them fix it . * Oddly enough, Condoleezza Rice ...
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