Political Engagements

Candid moments depicting politicians in various situations, including discussions, announcements, and public interactions.

President Elect Obama and Vice President Elect Biden wave from the Inaugural train in Edgewood, Maryland on January 17, 2009.
President Elect Obama and Vice President Elect Biden wave from the Inaugural train in Edgewood, Maryland on January 17, 2009.
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Gregorio López Raimundo (1914-2007), político comunista, en la fiesta electoral del Partit Socialista Unificat de Catalunya - PSUC celebrada en el camping La Tortuga Ligera, de Gavà, el 8 de mayo de 1977, con más de 100.000 asistentes. Año 1977.
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Dennis Ross, senior director for the Central Region Directorate, and Dan Shapiro, NSC senior director for the Middle East, left, confer in the Outer Oval, as Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton stands behind them, Sept. 1, 2010.
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With Vice President Joe Biden and his family looking on, Bruce Heyman signs his appointment papers to become the U.S. Ambassador to Canada at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on March 26, 2014.
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President Barack Obama greets 7-year-old Jack Hoffman, of Atkinson, Neb., in the Oval Office, April 29, 2013. Hoffman, who is battling pediatric brain cancer, gained national attention after he ran for a 69-yard touchdown during a Nebraska Cornhuskers spring football game. Hoffman holds a football that the President signed for him.
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President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden walk along the beach at the Carbis Bay Hotel and Estate for the G7 welcome ceremony Friday, June 11, 2021 in St. Ives, Cornwall, England.
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President Barack Obama, with daughter Sasha, looks at the card given to him during a birthday party with his staff in the Roosevelt Room of the White House, on Aug. 4, 2009. Daughter Malia and First Lady Michelle Obama look on at left.
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Anefo photo collection. Queen's Day 1964. Defilé Palace Soestdijk. April 30, 1964. Soestdijk
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Sen. John Glenn waves to a group of media and Twitter users as he takes the stage with NASA Administrator Charles Bolden and NASA Glenn Research Center Director Ray Lugo, right, at a Tweetup event celebrating John Glenn's legacy and 50 years of americans in orbit held at the Cleveland State University Wolstein Center on Friday, March 3, 2012 in Cleveland, Ohio. Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth in 1962.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry greets U.S. Ambassador to Canada Bruce Heyman in Iqaluit, Canada, on April 24, 2015, after arriving for a meeting just below the Arctic Circle of the Arctic Council, whose chairmanship the United States will assume the next two years.
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Preserve America Presidential Awards event at the White House, with Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Chairman John Nau III providing the introduction and First Lady Laura Bush announcing awards to the African Burial Ground project (resulting in the African Burial Ground National Monument) in New York City, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York City, the Corinth and Alcorn County, Mississippi Heritage Tourism Initiative, and the Historic Courthouse Preservation Program in Texas
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1433A:At the Gagarin Cosmonaut Training Center in Star City, Russia, Expedition 40/41 Flight Engineer Reid Wiseman of NASA (left) shares a special moment with former cosmonaut Alexey Leonov, the first human to walk in space, during ceremonies May 15 to mark the crews departure for their launch site at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan for final pre-launch training. Wiseman, Soyuz Commander Max Suraev of the Russian Federal Space Agency (Roscosmos) and Flight Engineer Alexander Gerst of the European Space Agency will launch on May 29, Kazakh time, in the Soyuz TMA-13M spacecraft from Baikonur for a 5 ½ month mission on the International Space Station.NASA/Stephanie Stoll
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New Yorker after watching a live broadcast of the inauguration and swearing in ceremony of Barack Obama as 44th president.
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President Barack Obama is presented with soccer jerseys for his daughters, Sasha and Malia, by FIFA President Joseph Blatter during a meeting in the Oval Office on July 27, 2009.
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Biden supporters celebrate his win outside the White House on Nov. 7.
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Karen Durham-Aguilera (right), executive director, Army National Military Cemeteries and Office of Army Cemeteries, greets Bill Nelson (left), administrator, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), upon his arrival to Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Va., Jan. 26, 2023. Nelson was at ANC for the NASA Day of Remembrance, where several wreaths are laid at memorials and gravesites in memory of those men and women who lost their lives furthering the cause of exploration and discovery.
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Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo meets with Foreign Minister of Denmark Jeppe Kofod and Minister of Education, Culture, Church, and Foreign Affairs of Greenland Ane Lone Bagger, at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on November 13, 2019.
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Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan welcomes U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on May 1, 2018.
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JSC2008-E-014951 (21 Feb. 2008) --- The crewmembers of the STS-122 mission were welcomed home to Houston Feb. 21, following the landing of Space Shuttle Atlantis in Florida on Feb. 20. Johnson Space Center's (JSC) director Michael L. Coats (far right) introduced the crew to the crowd on hand at Ellington Field. From the right are NASA astronauts Steve Frick, commander; Alan Poindexter, pilot; Leland Melvin, Rex Walheim, European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Hans Schlegel, NASA astronauts Stanley Love and Daniel Tani (out of frame), all mission specialists, were welcomed by family and friends during the ceremony.
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Official portrait of Paul Denett, Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy, Office of Management and Budget, and former Director of Administration and Senior Procurement Executive at the Department of the Interior
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First Lady Michelle Obama shows NFL Super Kid James Gale, 11, historical photos from previous administrations on display in the Booksellers Area during a National Football League (NFL) taping in the East Wing of the White House, Jan. 30, 2012. At right is James' mother Lisa Gale. The taping will air during the Super Bowl, Feb. 5, 2012.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry greets the staff and families from the U.S. Embassy in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia, at the U.S. Ambassador's Residence in Ulaanbaatar on June 5, 2016, before the Secretary held bilateral meetings with Mongolian Foreign Minister Lundeg Purevsuren and Mongolian President Tsakhia Elbegdorj.
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, May 29 2018. Demonstration opposing construction and federal purchase of Kinder-Morgan's trans-mountain pipeline at Creekside Park. Kennedy Stewart, former MP and Vancouver mayoral candidate prepares to take the stage. Credit: Patrick Gillin/Alamy Live News
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry, flanked to his left by U.S. Special Representative for Somalia James McAnulty and Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs Linda Thomas-Greenfield, sits with President Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, Prime Minister Omar Abdirashid Ali Sharmarke, and three regional leaders - Abdiweli Gaas, Puntland President, Sharif Hassan, Interim South West Administration President, and Ahmed Madobe, Interim Juba Administration President - after arriving in Mogadishu, Somalia, on May 6, 2015, for a series of meetings with Somali government officials and civil society representatives.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry toasts his staff aboard his U.S. Air Force plane on January 18, 2017, as it approached Joint Base Andrews in Camp Springs, Maryland, during the last flight of his tenure as a Cabinet officer after he attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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President Bush greets NFL Champions, the Pittsburgh Steelers
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Dedication ceremony for the new Craig Thomas Discovery and Visitor Center in Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming, where Secretary Dirk Kempthorne joined Vice President Dick Cheney, National Park Service Director Mary Bomar, Wyoming Senator Mike Enzi, Grand Teton Superintendent Mary Gibson Scott, and Susan Thomas, wife of the late Senator Craig Thomas, among the featured speakers
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A woman in a pink shirt holds a bouquet of vibrant pink peonies, creating a beautiful and feminine image.. A woman in a pink shirt holds a bouquet of vibrant pink peonies, creating a beautiful and feminine image
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Holidays, people and celebration concept. Elegant young guy wearing suit white shirt bow tie and carnival venetian mask, on dark.. Young man in carnival mask on dark
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Model Release. Cliff Barbour. Vintage Photograph. A portrait of a young amn with his head in his hand looking up.
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Washington, DC, April 25, 2014: The Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial in Washington, DC honors Dr. Kings national and international contributions and vision for all to enjoy a life of freedom, opportunity, and justice
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Backup Flight Engineer Salizhan Sharipov, front, NASA Expedition 9 backup commander Leroy Chiao, center and backup European Space Agency astronaut Gerhard Thiele, of Germany arrive at Baikonur, Kazakhstan, Tuesday, April 13, 2004, six days prior to the scheduled launch of Expedition 9 on a Soyuz rocket.
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Visit of Secretary Dirk Kempthorne to Washington, D.C.'s Tidal Basin and surrounding area, where he joined National Park Service Director Mary Bomar, National Mall and Memorial Parks Superintendent Peggy O'Dell, and National Cherry Blossom Festival, Inc. President Diana Mayhew for a press conference announcement of new and enhanced visitor services on the National Mall in time for the 2008 Cherry Bloossom Festival. The Secretary also spoke with National Park Service staff, U.S. Park Police personnel, and visitors around the Tidal Basin and National Mall.
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2012 Democratic National Convention
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People walk around the statue of George Washington and take photos, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA, North America
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President Bush greets NFL Champions, the Pittsburgh Steelers
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Civil Rights leader Jesse Jackson is Commemorating 100th Anniversary of Black Wall Street Massacre in 1921, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
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President Joe Biden greets Ret. U.S. Army Sgt. Peter Francis, his wife Carren, and their daughters Morgan and Kamryn Friday, Jan. 29, 2021, during a visit to Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda, Maryland. Sgt. Francis was injured in May of 2013 while deployed to Afghanistan where he suffered a gunshot wound to his spine with residual nerve damage to his right leg.
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Office of the Secretary - Swearing In Jon Dudas, Brett Palmer and Ben Wu
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Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs - Assistant Secretary of the Department of Labor Geri Palast Farewell
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Artemis II Crew Media Availability. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson gives remarks as NASA astronauts Victor Glover and Reid Wiseman look on, during a media gather, Thursday, May 18, 2023, on Capitol Hill grounds in Washington. NASA astronauts Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Hammock Koch, and CSA (Canadian Space Agency) astronaut Jeremy Hansen, who will fly around the Moon on NASAs Artemis II flight test, visited Washington to discuss their upcoming mission with members of Congress and others.
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NASA HQ Juneteenth Flag Raising Ceremony. NASA Administrator Bill Nelson, left, poses for a photo with Associate Administrator for the Office of Small Business Programs Glenn Delgado, right, during a flag raising ceremony in recognition and celebration of Juneteenth, Thursday, June 15, 2023, at the Mary W. Jackson NASA Headquarters building in Washington.
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Madrid, 06/09/2021. Congress of Deputies. Full control session of the Government and interpellations. Photo: Jaime García. ARCHDC.
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U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry chats with seven women mountain climbers from Nepal at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on July 17, 2014.