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DOUGLAS KIKER Associated Press Writer
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12-16-1998
Washington (AP) _ Lee Harvey Oswald's arrest warrant. Elvis Presley's letter to President Nixon volunteering to be a federal agent. George Washington's nomination of Thomas Jefferson to be the first secretary of state. Susan B. Anthony's indictment for trying to vote.

These and other pieces of American history are part of a new exhibition unveiled Wednesday in the rotunda of the National Archives _ the fourth in a series called ``American Originals.''

And uniquely American they are.

There is the journal of the Second Continental Congress, from July 4, 1776. On the wall above, a quote from the journal, ``We mutually ...

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