Howard ordered that any insignia related to the Office of the President, such as the presidential seal, may not be visible on the video.

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This rug features the Presidential Seal in the center and five historical quotations of meaning by Martin Luther King, Jr. and Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D.

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Send him one of those bookmarks with the Presidential seal.

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The Vice President used the official presidential seal on his podium, as the President did on Friday at Carnegie Mellon, using the presidential seal, at what was clearly announced as a campaign.

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And on the lighter side, I was there when my Tar Heels came in for an NCAA basketball championship visit and when the Presidential seal fell off of the podium while President Obama addressed attendees at the Fortune Most Powerful Women event.

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We use the presidential seal.

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In this case, as has been the practice of his predecessors running for reelection, there are times when it's entirely -- it is certainly in keeping with past precedent and appropriate to have the presidential seal on the podium behind which he is standing because he is actually the President of the United States.

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Following the end of World War II, President Truman issued an Executive Order to standardize the Presidential Seal, and the Coat of Arms was modified so that the eagle faces to its right, the direction of honor, and also toward the olive branch, a symbol of peace, rather than toward the arrows which represent war.

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In June he appeared at a Democratic governors' meeting in Chicago accompanied by a presidential-looking seal an eagle clutching an olive branch in one claw and arrows in the other and emblazoned with the slogan Vero Possimus (Yes we can).

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