This detail of an image provided Thursday, June 18, 2009 by Chicago's Abraham Lincoln Book Shop Inc. shows part of an Aug. 1863 glass plate negative of President Abraham Lincoln at a portrait studio in Washington, D.C. The photo shows a house fly on Lincoln's trouser leg just left and below his right knee. It proves that President Barack Obama, who swatted and killed a fly during an interview Tuesday, isn't the only president to have had an encounter with a fly. AP Photo logo AP Photo 4 months ago

This detail of an image provided Thursday, June 18, 2009 by Chicago's Abraham Lincoln Book Shop Inc. shows part of an Aug. 1863 glass plate negative of President Abraham Lincoln at a portrait studio in Washington, D.C. The photo shows a house fly on Lincoln's trouser leg just left and below his right knee. It proves that President Barack Obama, who swatted and killed a fly during an interview Tuesday, isn't the only president to have had an encounter with a fly.

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  1. Abraham Lincoln presenter Fritz Klein walks past Illinois's Old State Capitol after officials from the U.S. Mint released a new Lincoln penny in Springfield, Ill., Thursday, Aug 13, 2009.
  2. Celebrating Abraham Lincoln's 200th birthday, the U.S. Mint releases a new penny showing Abraham Lincoln speaking to the Illinois Legislature, at the Illinois Old State Capitol in Springfield, Ill., Thursday, Aug 13, 2009.
  3. WASHINGTON - OCTOBER 28: Former Senator Edward William Brooke (R-MA) speaks underneath a statue of Abraham Lincoln during a ceremony to honor Brooke with the Congressional Gold Medal in the Rotunda of the US Capitol on October 28, 2009 in Washington, DC. Brooke, a two-term Republican senator from 1967-1979, was the first African-American elected to the senate by popular vote.
  4. With a statue of Abraham Lincoln looming at left, former Massachusetts Sen. Edward William Brooke speaks in the Rotunda on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009, during a ceremony where he received the Congressional Gold Medal.
  5. President Barack Obama speaks under a statue of Abraham Lincoln in the Rotunda on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009, during a ceremony where former Massachusetts Sen. Edward Brooke, right, received the Congressional Gold Medal. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nev. is at center.
  6. Former Massachusetts Sen. Edward William Brooke watches the colors under the statue of President Abraham Lincoln in the Rotunda on Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009, during a ceremony where he received the Congressional Gold Medal.
  7. Former Massachusetts Sen. Edward William Brooke watches the colors under the statue of President Abraham Lincoln in the Rotunda on Capitol Hill in Washington Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2009, where he received the Congressional Gold Medal.
  8. Robert Spicer, left, and Ivan Edling, Civil War re-enactors from Loudoun Co, Va., pose with a Photo & Lock of Abraham Lincoln's hair, Wednesday Oct. 21, 2009 at the site where Senator/Colonel Edward Baker was killed 148 years ago at the Battle of Balls Bluff, Va. Colonel Baker was one of Lincoln's best friends; so much so that Lincoln named his 2nd son after him.
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