WASHINGTON - APRIL 1: Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill April 1, 2009 in Washington, DC. Sen. McCain and Rep. Peter King (R-NY) introduced a resolution calling on President Barack Obama to posthumously pardon the first African American heavyweight boxing champion John Arthur 'Jack' Johnson, who was a victim of what is widely regarded as a racially motivated conviction in 1913 for violating a law prohibiting taking women across state lines for 'immoral purposes'. Getty Images logo Getty Images 7 months ago

WASHINGTON - APRIL 1: Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns speaks during a news conference on Capitol Hill April 1, 2009 in Washington, DC. Sen. McCain and Rep. Peter King (R-NY) introduced a resolution calling on President Barack Obama to posthumously pardon the first African American heavyweight boxing champion John Arthur 'Jack' Johnson, who was a victim of what is widely regarded as a racially motivated conviction in 1913 for violating a law prohibiting taking women across state lines for 'immoral purposes'.

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  3. Documentary film maker Ken Burns, makes remarks on September 28, 2009 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Burns' most recent film, 'The National Parks: America's Best Idea', a 6-part, 12-hour series about the creation and evolving idea of US National Parks, premiered on PBS last night.
  4. Documentary fil maker Ken Burns, makes remarks on September 28, 2009 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Burns' most recent film, 'The National Parks: America's Best Idea', a 6-part, 12-hour series about the creation and evolving idea of US National Parks, premiered on PBS last night.
  5. Documentary film maker Ken Burns, makes remarks on September 28, 2009 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Burns' most recent film, 'The National Parks: America's Best Idea', a 6-part, 12-hour series about the creation and evolving idea of US National Parks, premiered on PBS last night.
  6. Film maker Ken Burns, makes remarks on September 28, 2009 at the National Press Club in Washington, DC. Burns' most recent film, 'The National Parks: America's Best Idea', a 6-part, 12-hour series about the creation and evolving idea of US National Parks, premiered on PBS last night.
  7. Indonesian activists wear masks featuring US President Barrack Obama (L), Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (2nd L), President of the European Commission Jose Manuel Barroso(2nd R) and Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd during a protest against biodiversity offset programs, in Jakarta on November 18, 2009. Scores of environment activists held a protest against the program of biodiversity offset as they believed that biodiversity offsets are conservation activities intended to compensate for the residual, unavoidable harm to biodiversity caused by development projects, and is not the real solution and will ruin ecological dignity of developing countries.
  8. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: In this photo illustration, a copy of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' sits on end on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  9. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes (R) and Matt Cross (L) open boxes of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' as other books sit on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  10. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Matt Cross (R) puts copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  11. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes (R) and Matt Cross (L) put copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  12. OREM, UT - NOVEMBER 16: Gary Haynes (R) and Matt Cross (L) put copies of Sarah Palin's book 'Going Rogue' on a display in the back room of a Costco November 16, 2009 in Orem, Utah. The Orem Costco received between 800-900 copies of the book which will go on sale tomorrow.
  13. House Financial Services Committee members, from left, Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., Rep. Michael Castle, R-Del., Rep. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., back to camera, Rep. Jeb Hensarling, R-Texas. and the Committee's Ranking Republican Rep. Spencer Bachus, R-Ala., confer on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009, during the committee's markup on the financial overhaul bill.
  14. House Financial Services Committee members Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., left, and Michael Castle, R-Del., confer on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Oct. 31, 2009, during the committee's markup on the financial overhaul bill.

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