EVB2940103: Bush Administration meets with military commanders at the Pentagon. L to R VP Dick Cheney President Bush Sec. Robert Gates Nat. Sec. Advisor Stephen J. Hadley Gen. George Casey Gen. T. Michael Moseley Gen. James E. Cartwright Gen. Peter Pace and Adm. Michael G. Mullen. Aug. 31 2007 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2940104: VP Cheney President Bush and Sec. Gates meet with the Joint Chiefs of Staff and military combatant commanders meet in the Cabinet Room. Jan. 29 2008 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2940106: President Bush displays a jacket given to him when he visited soldiers at Fort Stewart Georgia in the first weeks of his Presidency. Feb. 12 2001 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2940112: US officials and President Bush arrive at Al Asad Air Base Iraq to meet with members of the Iraqi government and sheiks from Anbar province on Sept. 3 2007. L to R Robert M. Gates Condoleezza Rice Gen. Peter Pace Adm. William J. Fallon Gen. David Petreaus Lt. Gen. Ray Odierno Maj. Gen. Walter E. Gaskin and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker / Bridgeman Images

EVB2940460: Sec. of State Henry Kissinger on the phone during the collapse of the South Vietnam in April 1975, Unknown photographer, (20th century) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2940461: President Ford with perennial Republican insiders then Chief of Staff Donald Rumsfeld and Rumsfeld s assistant Richard Cheney. Oval Office April 28 1975 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2940463: Gerald Ford told the House Judiciary Subcommittee that there were no deals connected with the his pardon or Richard Nixon. He was the first sitting the President first to give sworn congressional testimony. Oct 17 1974 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2940466: President Ford with former Beatle George Harrison and Billy Preston called the 'fifth Beatle' for his frequent collaboration with the Beatles as session musician. Dec. 13 1974 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2940486: Mount Saint Helens in the Cascade mountains of Washington State. The volcano summit would lose over 1 300 of its 9677 foot height when it erupted the day after this photograph was taken. May 17 1980 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2940491: Icebergs melt during the southern hemisphere summer. 2006 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2940496: Icebergs float near Antarctica during the South Polar summer. Feb. 3 2009 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2940501: Nuclear engineer inside Unit 2 of the Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station wears protective clothing after the partial meltdown of the reactor. April 1979 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2940513: Motiva petroleum refinery is located along the Mississippi River about 20 miles west of New Orleans Louisiana. It started operation in 1918 and is now joint venture between Shell Oil Co and Saudi Aramco. Sept. 13 2005 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2940534: In Mobile Alabama the Carnival cruise ship HOLIDAY provides temporary housing after Hurricane Katrina. Sept. 2005 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2940542: Supplement Extraordinary to the Independent Journal, Monday, July 28, 1788. (newsprint) / Bridgeman Images

EVB2940545: Broadside reporting Rhode Island Ratification of the Constitution. Rhode Island was the last of the original 13 colonies to ratify the Constitution of on May 29 1790 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2940547: Federalist Paper 50. Written by James Madison it examines the separation of the Departments branches of government. It also addresses the impropriety of direct popular participation in the decisions of government. 1788 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2940557: The Baltimore Road. 'View from Bushonge Tavern 5 miles from York Town on the Baltimore runs through a cultivated landscape with fencing and a log cabin. 1788 American engraving from The Columbian Magazine / Bridgeman Images

EVB2940561: First page of Treaty of Paris 1783. It ended the American Revolutionary War between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the United States of and was signed on September 3 1783 ratified by the Congress of the Confederation on January 14 1784 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928023: After a black tie White House dinner for West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. From left: Brandt, US President Richard Nixon, Karen Carpenter, First Lady Pat Nixon, Richard Carpenter, Washington, DC, May 1, 1973 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928026: William 'Buffalo Bill' Cody, 1886 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928116: World War II, Tom Sugimoto, Susie Sugimoto, at Tule Lake Japanese relocation center, northern California May 5, 1943 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928117: World War II, weeding a field of onions, Tule Lake Japanese relocation center, northern California May 21, 1943 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928122: World War II, Corporal Frank N. Okimoto, Sachiko Higashi, Corporal Tom Nakagawa, at a dance party, Tule Lake Japanese relocation center, northern California, May 21, 1943 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928124: World War II, Ulm, Germany in destruction, July 22, 1945 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928152: US General Mark W. Clark (left) receives the Omar Bradley gold medal award for his 'many outstanding contributions to national security' from Wayne E. Richards, national commander of the VFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars, Washington, DC, February 16, 1954 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928157: WORLD WAR 1: British Howitzer in action at the Arras front / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928225: Vietnam War, South Vietnam, A UH-1D Medevac helicopter takes off to pick up an injured member of the 101st Airborn Division near the demilitarized zone, c.late 1960s / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928226: Vietnam War, women and children loaded down with salvage and possessions scurry past the bodies of three Viet Cong killed during the fighting, c.late 1960s / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928235: Vietnam War, Vietnam, Specialist. 4 Richard Champion, squad leader, Company B, 4th Battalion, 21st Infantry, 11th Light Infantry Brigade, shouts instructions to his squad after receiving sniper fire while on patrol on Hill 56, 70 miles southeast of Chu Lai, c.late 1960s / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928240: Vietnam War, Pink Rose, during the Pink Rose test program target areas near Tay Ninh and An Loc, Vietnam were sprayed with agent orange twice and with a drying agent once. Ten flights of three B-52s each dropped 42 M-35 incendiary incendiary cluster bombs, per aircraft, into the target area setting fires that burned the heavy growth, c.late 1960s / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928248: Vietnam War, members of Company 'D' ist Battalion, 501st Airborne Infantry relate battle and wounds received during action east of Tam Ky, to other members of the Company, c.1960s / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928268: An early motorcycle club watches as a member pops a wheelie on an uphill climb. Santa Clara County, California c. 1940 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928284: Ronald Reagan. President Reagan motioning to Attorney General Ed Meese during a White House Press Briefing on Iran-Contra. The White House, Washington, D.C., 1986 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928285: Ronald Reagan. President Reagan (L) and Secretary of State George P. Shultz (center) in a briefing with the National Security Council Staff on the Libya Bombing. Washington, D.C. April, 1986 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2928287: Ronald Reagan. General Secretary Gorbachev (L) and President Reagan (R) signing the INF Treaty (Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty). Washington, D.C. December 8, 1987 / Bridgeman Images