Five Great Political Comebacks: Media
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On the comeback trail
Donald Trump campaigning with his running mate, J.D. Vance, in 2024. That year Trump...
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Out of exile at last
Vladimir Lenin reading the Russian newspaper Pravda in 1918, after successfully...
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First consul
Napoleon's rule over France was marked by stunning victories and equally crushing...
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Orator, statesman, comeback kid
Winston Churchill, photographed by Yousuf Karsh at the height of his power in 1941,...
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Nixon in the Oval Office
In a great political comeback that perhaps even he could not have envisioned, Richard...
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The boy king
Simeon Saxecoburggotski, shown in 1943, became the last king of Bulgaria, ruling...
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Coming home
Simeon Saxecoburggotski celebrating his return to Bulgaria for the first time in...
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