Barack Obama's Blackberry smartphone. Franklin Roosevelt's lucky fedora. The safety plug of the atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki. The telephone used by Richard Nixon to speak with the Apollo astronauts on the Moon. Dwight Eisenhower's written orders to Allied troops on D-day and the note he prepared in case the invasion failed.
These are just a handful of the visually stunning objects, memos, notes, memorabilia and mementoes that stand as reminders of events that shed light on who the presidents really were—especially when the cameras weren't rolling—or that, quite literally, shaped the world as we know it.
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