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A stack of gold bars.

Salmon P. Chase

Seated portrait of President William McKinley in a dark suit, resting his arm on a desk and looking slightly to the side, circa 1900.

Delegates from multiple nations seated at long tables in a large hall, with a speaker at a podium and rows of international flags behind, at the Bretton Woods Conference, 1944.

William Jennings Bryan

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