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There are 36 Presidents buried in 17 states and Washington, D.C. Richard Nixon is the only one buried in California. Although seven of them have presidential libraries, only five of them are buried there. A chronological review of Presidents, through Nixon, and particulars about their gravesites: Number of Presidents Buried by State More Presidents are buried in Virginia, New York and Ohio than any other state. A quick look at where presidents are buried, and how many there are, by state.

  Pakistan's ambassador to the United States was summoned back to Islamabad this week to explain his role in a purported attempt to get Washington's help in reining in his country's powerful military. The envoy, Husain Haqqani, faces questioning in a controversy involving a Pakistani American businessman's claim that the businessman passed along a memo from President Asif Ali Zardari seeking Washington's assistance in fending off a possible military overthrow. The businessman, Mansoor Ijaz, claimed in a newspaper column Oct. 10 that he delivered the memo to Adm. Michael G. Mullen, then the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, at the request of an unnamed senior Pakistani diplomat.

Linda Tripp wanted a book deal. Kathleen Willey wanted a job. Bruce R. Lindsey hoped to protect his boss. And Monica S. Lewinsky was after romance. None of them got what they wanted. Tripp's book proposal exposing alleged shenanigans inside the Clinton White House fell through. Willey worked for a while for the administration but eventually left embittered over an encounter outside the Oval Office.

The news itself was hardly startling. It has been increasingly clear during the last year that the Regent (Vladimir Putin) would recover the throne from the Dauphin (Dmitry Medvedev). But now that it seems a certainty that Russia is headed for (at least) 12 more years of Putinism, alarm bells ought to be sounding. Why? Because by every indicator — macroeconomic, political, social — the system that Putin forged in the early 2000s is all but exhausted and is driving the country toward a dead end. It must be radically reformed, or better yet, discarded.

One was the perfect hostess who charmed the world and redefined the title of First Lady with her style, elegance and dignity. The other, a driven professional who wins admiration with her eloquence, intellect and unflinching determination, is revolutionizing the role of presidential spouse. Three decades separate the reigns of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and Hillary Rodham Clinton, and no two women better illustrate the sea change in public perception of the "ideal woman."

If it seems arbitrary -- even unfair -- to take the measure of a new president after just 100 days in office, you can blame Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1933, with the nation in a financial meltdown, Roosevelt came to the White House and, with an enthusiastic Democratic Congress at his command, enacted a whirlwind of emergency legislation.

The nation's capital will be bursting in song Inauguration Week, with voices to accommodate almost every musical taste--from pop diva Barbra Streisand to soprano Kathleen Battle to the R&B group Boyz II Men. Here are the events featuring the biggest names: Sunday: "An American Reunion: The People's Inaugural Celebration," a free concert at the Lincoln Memorial, on HBO, 8-10 p.m., Quincy Jones producing.

The presidential chain saw has fallen silent, the meat-loaf pans have been washed, and Rawhide and Rainbow, as the Secret Service refers to President and Nancy Reagan, are back in the White House after a 25-day working vacation on the West Coast. Life at the Reagans' Rancho del Cielo, 29 miles north of Santa Barbara, was reportedly slow-paced and simple this year.

The son watched his father, vowing not to repeat his mistakes. The weekend before George W. Bush defeated Texas Gov. Ann Richards in 1994, he stood in the backyard of his Dallas home hitting tennis balls into the swimming pool for his dog to fetch and ruminating about the future with his media strategist, Don Sipple.

He was in his mid-30s, a businessman and he hadn't played the sax since high school. But after all the publicity surrounding Bill Clinton's saxophone performance on the "Arsenio Hall Show," all the saxophone jokes on "The Tonight Show" and all the saxophone paraphernalia now being hawked, he finally broke down. He visited Marshall Music in Torrance on his lunch break last week and rented a sax.

Bolivian President Evo Morales on Monday accused the United States of undermining democratic government in Latin America in a speech about purported plots and conspiracies originating in Washington, as U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates listened only a few feet away. Gates showed no noticeable reaction as Morales opened a conference of defense ministers with a rambling, hourlong address that condemned the U.S. military, several former American ambassadors to Bolivia, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the International Monetary Fund and two members of the U.S. Congress.

The tiresome dance involving U.S. national team Coach Bob Bradley and U.S. Soccer is getting on my nerves. Does he want to stay? Does the federation want him back? Does anyone outside of the small band of U.S. soccer fanatics really give two figs one way or another? Bradley has been a success. So keep him. Stop messing about. Just throw some more money at him — his $600,000 salary, plus bonuses, is a pitiful amount and should at least be doubled — and let him get on with the job. Bradley has been a failure.

The president looks pale. No, he's quite robust. He appears weak. No, he's very strong. So goes a summer of speculation and chatter over the health of President Hosni Mubarak. The man who has ruled Egypt for nearly 30 years dominates the nation's consciousness like a patriarch in a novel written long ago. There are whispers and asides, but few really know how the president is faring or what is unfolding behind the palace gates. It is the not knowing that wears on Egyptians, turning every sighting of Mubarak into a national parlor game over how he looks, speaks, walks and smiles.

Mexican President Felipe Calderon implored a joint session of Congress on Thursday to ban assault weapons that are showing up in his country in great numbers, and he also denounced Arizona's strict new immigration law. Winding up a two-day visit to Washington, Calderon said that his security forces were seizing tens of thousands of powerful guns that they have traced to the United States. Calderon said the U.S. needed to "regulate the sale of these weapons in the right way."

Jamie McCourt considered whether to parlay her high-profile position with the Dodgers into the pursuit of political offices, including president of the United States, according to documents filed by her estranged husband in the couple's divorce proceedings. McCourt declined to comment Monday, after speaking at a luncheon benefiting the Jewish Federation of Orange County. She told the crowd she had no desire to stage a public fight over ownership of the Dodgers but even less desire to walk away from a 30-year marriage on terms dictated by Frank McCourt.

The scene: A vast crowd at a political rally raises a tumult of adulation. Triumphal music rises. Graphics of President Obama's image slide across the scene as we hear the now-familiar voice say, "Change has come to America. . . . Our moment is now. . . . Yes we can!" The crowd chants. Slow pullback on the image of the White House. Announcer: "To commemorate the inauguration of our 44th president with a well-known American icon, introducing. . . ." Jingle: Chi-chi-chi Chia! Announcer: "Chia Obama!"

Howard St. John Hunt remembers the night of the Watergate break-in as a bonding experience with his father. A sweating and disheveled E. Howard Hunt roused his 19-year-old son from a dead sleep to help him wipe fingerprints from the burglars' radios and pack the surveillance equipment into a suitcase. Then, father and son raced to a remote Maryland bridge, where they heaved the evidence into the Potomac River just before dawn on June 17, 1972.

On his HBO show, "Real Time With Bill Maher," the comedian routinely makes vicious fun of celebrities, politicians, presidents and even God. But he's learned that, for much of his audience, Barack Obama is off limits. Not long after the historic presidential election, Maher joked that Republicans were feeling particularly superstitious: "They say the country is having bad luck because there's a black cat in the White House."

Facebook, the popular social networking website, moved quickly Monday to take down a member's poll asking if President Obama should be assassinated. The question, "Should Obama be killed?" had received 730 responses since its posting on Saturday. The four possible answers: Yes. Maybe. If he cuts my healthcare. No. The Secret Service launched an investigation into the threat against the president. A Facebook spokesman said the Palo Alto-based company was not aware of the poll until early Monday morning and did not know who posted it or who responded to it. "At this time, we don't know," said Barry Schnitt, a spokesman for policy.

After a summer of healthcare battles and sliding approval ratings for President Obama, the White House is facing a troubling new trend: The voters losing faith in the president are the ones he had worked hardest to attract. New surveys show steep declines in Obama's approval ratings among whites -- including Democrats and independents -- who were crucial elements of the diverse coalition that helped elect the country's first black president. Among white Democrats, Obama's job approval rating has dropped 11 points since his 100-days mark in April, according to surveys by the Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.