Celebrated Political Figures

Images of prominent politicians delivering speeches at various events, conveying authority and significance against official backdrops.

John McCain
John McCain
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President Bush welcomes Chinese President Hu Jintao
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- NASA Administrator Sean OKeefe comments on the design of the new Florida quarter during the ceremony at the KSC Visitor Complex that launched the coin. Also participating were Center Director Jim Kennedy, who emceed, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, U.S. Mint Director Henrietta Holsman Fore and Deputy Secretary of the Treasury Samuel W. Bodman. The quarter celebrates Florida as a destination for explorers in the past, a launch site for future explorers into space and an inviting place for visitors today.
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On the eve of the fortieth anniversary of Apollo 11's first human landing on the Moon, Apollo 11 crew member, Buzz Aldrin speaks during a lecture in honor of Apollo 11 at the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, Sunday, July 19, 2009. Guest speakers included Former NASA Astronaut and U.S. Senator John Glenn, NASA Mission Control creator and former NASA Johnson Space Center director Chris Kraft and the crew of Apollo 11.
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Dick Cheney at a Bush/Cheney campaign rally in Costa Mesa, CA, 2000
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Joseph Lieberman, won re-election as an independent
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Former chancellor Helmut Schmidt, SPD, Social Democratic Party of Germany, in Passau, Germany, Europe
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- During a visit to Kennedy Space Center, former President Jimmy Carter (left) pauses for a photo with Center Director Roy D. Bridges
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German actor Peter Bause at a book reading on 05.10.2020 in Magdeburg, German actor Peter Bause at a book reading on October 5th, 2020 in Magdeburg
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Former Secretary of Interior Stewart Udall appearing as guest of honor at Department of Interior headquarters events celebrating the contributions of the former Secretary and the late Congressman Morris Udall
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Former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani speaking to a crowd during Motivation Seminar
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson waves to employees before delivering farewell remarks at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C. on March 22, 2018.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Before the induction ceremony of five space program heroes into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame, former astronaut John Glenn Jr. is greeted with applause as he is introduced as a previous inductee. One of America's original Mercury Seven astronauts, in 1962 he became the first American to orbit the Earth. Twenty-six years later, at age 77, he spent nine days in space aboard Space Shuttle Discovery. The ceremony was held at the Apollo/Saturn V Center at KSC. New inductees are Richard O. Covey, commander of the Hubble Space Telescope repair mission; Norman E. Thagard, the first American to occupy Russias Mir space station; the late Francis R. "Dick" Scobee, commander of the ill-fated 1986 Challenger mission; Kathryn D. Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space; and Frederick D. Gregory, the first African-American to command a space mission and the current NASA deputy administrator. The U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame opened in 1990 to provide a pl
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Secretary of the Air Force Frank Kendall speaks during a Hispanic Heritage Month event at the Air and Space Forces Association headquarters in Arlington, Va., Oct. 14, 2022.
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BARCELONA, 01/31/2010.- The president of CiU, Artur Mas, together with the general secretary of CiU and leader of Unió, Josep Antoni Duran Lleida, greets those attending the ceremony of his proclamation as a candidate for the third time for the presidency of the Generalitat, held today in the Vall d'Hebron Pavilion in Barcelona...We also find Jordi Pujol, Marta Ferrusola (his wife) and Helena Rakosnik, wife of Artur Mas......PHOTOS BY JOB VERMEULEN ....ARCHDC.
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James Cameron at James Cameron and Jon Landau hand and foot imprinting ceremony held at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood, USA on January 12, 2023., Los Angeles, California, USA, North America
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John McCain
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Madrid 09-3-2013 Government Commission with the appearance of the Minister of Foreign Affairs Jose Manuel Garcia Margallo ..... Photo: Angel de Antonio .... Archdc Angel de Antonio.
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James Cameron at James Cameron and Jon Landau hand and foot imprinting ceremony held at the TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood, USA on January 12, 2023., Los Angeles, California, USA, North America
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White House Conference on North American Wildlife Policy at the Downtown Reno Ballroom, Reno, Nevada, where Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne joined participating dignitaries including Vice President Dick Cheney, Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer, Nevada Governor Jim Gibbons, and Sporting Conservation Council's Bob Model
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2006 Family Heritage Awards Ceremony at the National Park Service's Ellis Island Immigration Museum in New York City, New York, with Acting Interior Secretary P. Lynn Scarlett among the speakers and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, author Frank McCourt, advertising executive Shelly Lazarus, and major league baseball's Tommy Lasorda among the featured awardees
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2006 Family Heritage Awards Ceremony at the National Park Service's Ellis Island Immigration Museum in New York City, New York, with Acting Interior Secretary P. Lynn Scarlett among the speakers and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, author Frank McCourt, advertising executive Shelly Lazarus, and major league baseball's Tommy Lasorda among the featured awardees
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Former Secretary of Interior Stewart Udall appearing as guest of honor at Department of Interior headquarters events celebrating the contributions of the former Secretary and the late Congressman Morris Udall
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Mercury astronaut John Glenn poses for a photo in front of the Project Mercury monument at Launch Complex-14 LC-14 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. During events at the Cape and NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Glenn is marking the 50th anniversary of being the first American astronaut to orbit the Earth inside the Friendship 7 capsule on Feb. 20, 1962. Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - Mercury astronaut John Glenn, left, talks with Kennedy Space Center Director Bob Cabana during a luncheon Feb. 17, 2012, celebrating 50 years of Americans in orbit, an era which began with Glenn's Mercury mission MA-6, on Feb. 20, 1962.Glenn's launch aboard an Atlas rocket took with it the hopes of an entire nation and ushered in a new era of space travel that eventually led to Americans walking on the moon by the end of the 1960s. Glenn soon was followed into orbit by Scott Carpenter, Walter Schirra and Gordon Cooper. Their fellow Mercury astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil "Gus" Grissom flew earlier suborbital flights. Deke Slayton, a member of NASA's original Mercury 7 astronauts, was grounded by a medical condition until the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project in 1975.
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London, England, UK. 19th Feb, 2025. KING CHARLES III leaves Centre For Injury Studies at Imperial College London after a visit to see how lessons from past conflicts are applied to support the wounded in Ukraine. (Credit Image: © Tayfun Salci/ZUMA Press Wire) EDITORIAL USAGE ONLY! Not for Commercial USAGE!
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Press conference announcing the launch of the Trust of the National Mall, a nonprofit organization that will help raise private-sector funds needed for restoration and preservation of the National Mall. Secretary Dirk Kempthorne joined National Park Service Deputy Director Lindi Harvey, National Mall and Memorial Parks Superintendent Peggy O'Dell, Trust for the National Mall Chairman John "Chip" Akridge, Washington, D.C. Delegate to Congress Eleanor Holmes Norton, and other dignitaries at the event, which also included a brief civics lesson taught by an actor playing George Washington to a group of students from Anne Beers Elementary School in Washington, D.C.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Former astronaut Robert Crippen smiles at the warm greeting he is receiving when introduced as a previous inductee into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame. He and other Hall of Fame members were present for the induction of five new space program heroes into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame: Richard O. Covey, commander of the Hubble Space Telescope repair mission; Norman E. Thagard, the first American to occupy Russias Mir space station; the late Francis R. "Dick" Scobee, commander of the ill-fated 1986 Challenger mission; Kathryn D. Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space; and Frederick D. Gregory, the first African-American to command a space mission and the current NASA deputy administrator. Crippen piloted the first Space Shuttle flight in 1981 and commanded three other Shuttle missions in the next 3-1/2 years. In the early 1990s he served as director of NASAs Kennedy Space Center. The induction ceremony was held at the Apollo/Saturn V Ce
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Billy Graham New York Crusade
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Hall of Fame astronaut and NASA's Kennedy Space Center Director Robert Cabana thanks the audience for its applause at the 2009 U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame induction ceremony at Kennedy's Visitor Complex in Florida. The ceremony took place May 2. More than 20 hall of fame astronauts attended, including Scott Carpenter, Walt Cunningham, Jim Lovell and Bob Crippen.
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Secretary Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark Esper hold a Joint U.S.-India 2+2 Ministerial Dialogue Press Availability with Indian External Affairs Minister Dr. Subrahmanyam Jaishankar and Indian Defence Minister Rajnath Singh, in New Delhi, India, on October 27, 2020.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- Former astronaut Joe Engle acknowledges the applause as he is introduced as a previous inductee into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame. He and other Hall of Fame members were present for the induction of five new space program heroes into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame: Richard O. Covey, commander of the Hubble Space Telescope repair mission; Norman E. Thagard, the first American to occupy Russias Mir space station; the late Francis R. "Dick" Scobee, commander of the ill-fated 1986 Challenger mission; Kathryn D. Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space; and Frederick D. Gregory, the first African-American to command a space mission and the current NASA deputy administrator. Engle made 16 flights in the X-15 rocket plane before he became a NASA astronaut and flew two Space Shuttle missions. In 1981, he commanded the second flight of Columbia, the first manned spacecraft to be reflown in space, and in 1985 he commanded a five-man crew on the 20t
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Souleymane Issakou Niger is received by Frank-Walter Steinmeier (President of the Federal Republic of Germany) in front of the Federal President's New Year's Reception at Bellevue Palace, Berlin 14 January 2025
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- Hall of Fame astronaut Al Worden speaks during the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame induction ceremony held at Kennedy's Visitor Complex in Florida. Worden is a member of the hall of fame. The ceremony took place May 2. More than 20 hall of fame astronauts attended, including Scott Carpenter, Walt Cunningham, Jim Lovell and Bob Crippen.
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Ross Perot answers a question at the presidential debate in October 1992.
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NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden delivers his remarks during a press conference where NASA unveiled new images from the Hubble Space Telescope Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009 at NASA Headquarters in Washington. The unveiled images were from four of the telescopes' six operating science instruments.
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Prime Minister of Canada Mark Carney speaks to King Charles III in the Senate Chamber at the Senate of Canada Building, Ottawa, for the State Opening of the Parliament of Canada, as part of the royal two-day visit to Canada. Picture date: Tuesday May 27, 2025.
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KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FLA. -- At the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame induction ceremony, former astronaut John Glenn acknowledges his membership in the Hall of Fame. These gentlemen have joined such American space heroes as Neil Armstrong, Glenn, Alan Shepard and Sally Ride. The ceremony was held at the Kennedy Space Center's Apollo/Saturn V Center.
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U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson poses for a photo with Fairbanks Mayor Jim Matherly at the 10th Arctic Council Ministerial in Fairbanks, Alaska, on May 11, 2017.
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Franz Beckenbauer, Honorary President 1. FC Bavaria Munich football club, straightens glasses
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NA, Mexico, Ted Turner.
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Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 1953-1969