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Senator John F. Kennedy sent this inscribed photo to Mayor Robert F. Wagner when he was running for president in 1960. It reads: 'Dear Bob: Maybe someday, if I'm ever President, they'll be looking in my direction? Best, Jack.'
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Souvenir photo of the liberation of Paris, August 28, 1944: Surrendered German officers.
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The American ambassador to Spain, Robert F. Wagner, greets the Republic of China representatative, Fu-Sung Chu, and his wife at the U.S. embassy in Madrid, 1968.
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Roman Forum with the Coliseum in the background, visited by the Wagner family in July 1962.
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Manhattan Borough President Robert F. Wagner wants Herbert Lehman to run in the 1950 special election to serve out his father's term in the Senate.
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Where the powerful meet: Bohemian Grove, California, in 1958. Mayor Robert F. Wagner is at the front, right.
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Mayor Robert F. Wagner with Francis Cardinal Spellman in front of St. Patrick's Cathedral, St. Patrick's Day, 1954.
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President John F. Kennedy, circa 1962. In the background are Robert F. Kennedy and J. Edgar Hoover, director of the FBI.
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White House counsel, Judge Samuel Rosenman, poses with two American military officers beneath a portrait of Stalin in the Soviet sector of East Berlin, July 1945.
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John Glenn, right, was given a hero's welcome in New York, March 1, 1962. L-R, Mayor Robert F. Wagner, Annie Glenn, and Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson.
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The Wagner family visited Vatican City, Rome, in July 1962.
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Mayor Ed Koch and Board of Education President Bobby Wagner share a laugh with Governor Mario Cuomo at a ceremony, 1988.
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X marks the spot--where ex-President Dwight D. Eisenhower is driving the mallet for a planned colonnade in his honor, in Battery Park, September 1963. Mayor Robert F. Wagner and Parks Commissioner Newbold Morris are among the observers.
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Bobby Wagner campaigning for the Manhattan borough presidency, 1977.
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Mayor Robert F. Wagner is chauffered in a Chevrolet during his and Susan Wagner's 1955 Brazilian vacation.
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Francis Cardinal Spellman officiates at the wedding of Mayor Robert F. Wagner and Barbara Cavanagh, July 26, 1965.
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Former Mayor Robert F. Wagner at his Mt. Kisco home, 1977.
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Retired U.S. Senator Robert F. Wagner gives his son some advice during the first mayoral campaign, 1953.
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Pope John Paul II poses with Robert F. Wagner, the U.S. special ambassador to the Holy See, 1978.
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Former President Harry S. Truman autographs a copy of his book for the Wagners at Gracie Mansion, circa 1960.
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Red Square in Moscow, 1990. Photo by Bobby Wagner.
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The Wagners visited the Palace of Fontainebleau near Paris in July 1962.
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Former Mayor Robert F. Wagner addresses a garment center rally on behalf of presidential candidate Hubert Humphrey, 1968.
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State Supreme Court Justice Robert F. Wagner accompanies his son, the future mayor, on a trip to Europe aboard "Majestic," July 1924.
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Water tunnel No. 5 was inspected by Bobby Wagner, chairman of the city planning commission, in a photo apparently taken by Wagner, 1978.
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Bobby Wagner, age 9, distributes campaign buttons for his father's first run for mayor in 1953.
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Army Air Forces Major Robert F. Wagner receives his lieutenant-colonel bars, 1945.
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Three generations of Wagners: Senator Robert F. Wagner, with Bobby and Duncan, and Robert F. Wagner, 1947.
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Mayor Ed Koch swears in Bobby Wagner as deputy mayor for policy at City Hall, January 1980.
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Mayor Robert F. Wagner at an outdoor rally, 1955.