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[Richard Milhaus Nixon, 1913-, seated, at desk in Capitol, playing football with Andrus Suritis, one millionth refugee relocated by an international welfare organization] – Antique Wall Art

[Richard Milhaus Nixon, 1913-, seated, at desk in Capitol, playing football with Andrus Suritis, one millionth refugee relocated by an international welfare organization] — historic photograph
[Richard Milhaus Nixon, 1913-, seated, at desk in Capitol, playing football with Andrus Suritis, one millionth refugee relocated by an international welfare organization]. Historic photograph from the Presidents collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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A window into the past: [Richard Milhaus Nixon, 1913-, seated, at desk in Capitol, playing football with Andrus Suritis, one millionth refugee relocated by an international welfare organization], preserved in this historic photograph. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.

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[Richard Milhaus Nixon, 1913-, seated, at desk in Capitol, playing football with Andrus Suritis, one millionth refugee relocated by an international welfare organization]

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A football tossed across a desk in the Capitol gives this picture its humor: Richard Nixon, then vice president, is shown playing with Andrus Suritis, identified in the caption as the one millionth refugee relocated by an international welfare organization. Such milestones were a point of pride in the postwar resettlement of displaced Europeans, when agencies worked to move people out of camps and into new homes abroad. The caption card does not record a date, but the setting and the official nature of the meeting place the image in the 1950s, when Nixon held the vice presidency. The informal pose offers a glimpse of a politician posing with a newcomer whose life had been shaped by the upheavals of war.

Medium1 photographic print.
Notes[no date recorded on caption card]
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,200 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-120508

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