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Get the Book
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Photos: Oval Office Confidential: from Truman to Obama
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Secrets of the Presidents Club: How Bill Clinton Learned to Salute
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A Presidential Hangout: Inside the World's Most Exclusive Clubhouse
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Book Excerpt: Inside the Presidents Club
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How the World's Most Exclusive Club Was Created
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Video: Nancy Gibbs and Michael Duffy on The Presidents Club
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Friends and Exes: JFK's Republican Allies
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What Obama Sees in Reagan
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Video: The Presidents Club on Uncommon Knowledge with Peter Robinson
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Beach Force One
Only Presidents know how much a President needs a vacation
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The Faith Factor
Just how devout do Americans want their president to be?
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Judge a Presidency By Its Crises Avoided
How Presidents consider the alternative reality in order to keep bad things from getting worse
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President of the United States: The Loneliest Job
Obama is not the first President to find out how hard it is to make or keep friends in the White House
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Is There a Second Act for George W. Bush?
When "Hail to the Chief" stops playing, most former leaders of the free world learn to sing a new tune
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How Presidents Pass the Torch
The Bush-Obama handover has been notably civil. (F.D.R. considered his predecessor a fat capon)