Johnson has been on a public relations offensive, extending olive branches to the Maloofs in the past week.

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The atmosphere may well be frosty before any olive branches are held out.

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President Barack Obama has lost no time extending olive branches to the world and promising to mend diplomatic fences that his predecessor heedlessly trampled on.

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But it was also one that offered olive branches to Republicans.

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Thousands of pilgrims wave palms and olive branches, symbols of peace, to be blessed by the pope as he leads a procession around the square before delivering mass outside.

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Peter's Square, encouraging people to be humble and young at heart as he promised to go to a youth jamboree Brazil this summer, while the faithful enthusiastically waved olive branches and braided palm fronds.

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Gently waving olive tree branches dapple the sunlight.

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