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June 30, 2006

The Story Behind The Haircut..Er...Picture

It was the morning of.March 30, 1981; Rudy Giuliani met with President Reagan to discuss the young prosecutor''s upcoming Senate confirmation vote that would make him associate attorney general.

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A few hours after this picture was taken, John Hinckley shot Reagan in the chest at the Washington Hilton.

Giuliani was tasked by the attorney general with safeguarding Hinckley in custody.

As Giuliani told Robert George,

"We had to get (Hinckley) arraigned within a reasonable period of time," Giuliani says. "Although this was a crime of worldwide significance, it still had to be treated like any other crime."

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