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A dessert plate from the China used in the James K. Polk White House is among the patterns displayed in "The Presidential Dish" exhibit at the Woodrow Wilson House museum in Washington, DC. (Woodrow Wilson House/MCT) (HANDOUT / Woodrow Wilson House/MCT)

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