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Strange Bedfellows at the National Prayer Breakfast

BUSH BONO
President George W. Bush shakes hands with U2 frontman Bono, who spoke at the 2006 National Prayer Breakfast.Ron Edmonds—AP
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Billy Graham & JFK
John F. Kennedy, the nation's first Catholic president, eats breakfast with Southern Baptist minister Billy Graham at the National Prayer Breakfast in 1961.Abbie Rowe—PhotoQuest/Getty Images
ELIZABETH DOLE
Elizabeth Dole, then the U.S. Secretary of Transportation and later a Senator, spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast in 1987.AP
INDIA-MOTHER TERESA
Nobel Peace Prize winner Mother Teresa, a Catholic missionary who ran charities in India, spoke in 1994.Raveendran—AFP/Getty Images
BUSH BONO
President George W. Bush shakes hands with U2 frontman Bono, who spoke at the 2006 National Prayer Breakfast.Ron Edmonds—AP
OBAMA BONO
Bono was also seen with then-Sen. Barack Obama at the 2006 National Prayer Breakfast.Ron Edmonds—AP
George W. Bush, Laura Bush, Francis Collins, Emanuel Cleaver, Diane Cleaver
Dr. Francis Collins, head of the Human Genome Project, sings and plays guitar at the 2007 National Prayer Breakfast while President George W. Bush and Democratic Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II watch.Gerald Herbert—AP
US Vice President Joe Biden reaches for
Vice President Joe Biden reaches for milk while sitting next to former Prime Minister Tony Blair at the 2009 National Prayer Breakfast.Saul Loeb—AFP/Getty Images
Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodrigu
Michelle Obama sits with Spanish Prime Minister Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero, who was the guest speaker at the 2010 National Prayer Breakfast.Mandel Ngan—AFP/Getty Images
Conservative Activists And Leaders Attend The Iowa Freedom Summit
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