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Stans\n                -Secretary of State\n                -Treasury Secretary\n                -Secretary of Defense\n                -Attorney General\n                -The Vice President\n          -Portraits\n                -Dwight D. Eisenhower\n                -Theodore (“Teddy”) Roosevelt\n                -[Thomas] Woodrow Wilson\n          -United Nations Ambassador\n                -George H. W. 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