Both of us had chosen Simmie Knox to paint our portraits: we liked Knox's lifelike style, and he would be the first African-American portraitist to have his work hang in the White House.

我俩都选了西米·诺克斯来为我们画像：我们欣赏他逼真的风格，他也将成为第一位将作品悬挂在白宫的非裔画家。

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Simmie Knox's portrait of Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, for instance, shows him smiling.

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Dismayed by his obstinance, a group of friends secretly enlisted an artist, Simmie Knox, who had done the official White House portraits of Bill and Hillary Clinton.

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