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It's been tradition to declare a federal holiday whenever a former president dies. Your profile says you were born in '68, so you should be old enough to remember when Nixon died back in '95 or so, the same was accorded to him (Nixon requested a funeral in California, and no state funeral, if I recall correctly, which may be why there is more hulabaloo about this one).
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"In Iraq, no doubt about it, it's tough. It's hard work. It's incredibly hard. It's - and it's hard work. I understand how hard it is. I get the casualty reports every day. I see on the TV screens how hard it is. But it's necessary work. We're making progress. It is hard work."
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