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Richard Nixon as a senior law school student at Duke University in 1937
Richard Nixon as a senior law school student at Duke University in 1937. (UPI Photo/Files)

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President Obama Thursday appointed Daniel Werfel, a senior official at the Office of Management and Budget, acting commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service.
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Palestinian  Security Forces Patrol the Border With Egypt.
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A members of the Hamas security forces patrol the border area between Gaza and Egypt, in the southern Gaza Strip May 20, 2013. Egyptian police angered by the kidnapping of seven colleagues by Islamist gunmen kept a crossing into the Gaza Strip closed again for four days, stranding hundreds of Palestinian travellers, As Tunnels between Egypt and Gaza closed and border was declared as military zone. Palestinian security forces patrol around the border, witnesses said. UPI/Ismael Mohamad