In June 2002, the Navy ordered a mission to explore the wreckage of the Akron.

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This is exactly what happened to Jimmy Carter and why it is so bizarre that Mitt Romney actually brought up Carter in his response when asked if he would have ordered the mission to kill bin Laden.

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Kissinger, 88, first traveled to China on a secret mission ordered by Richard Nixon in 1971 to meet with Beijing officials.

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The Nepalese Foreign Ministry said Asim Saboor, the assistant secretary at the Pakistani mission in Kathmandu, had been ordered to leave within 72 hours.

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In 1944 Paul Tibbets was told about the Manhattan Project and ordered to pick a crew for what was called special bombing mission number 13.

ECONOMIST: Thomas Ferebee