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President Bush arrives aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln

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Sitting in the co-pilot's seat of a Navy S-3B Viking, President Bush lands May 1 on the USS Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier stationed off the coast of San Diego. Dressed in a flight suit, he gives a nationally televised victory speech from the carrier's flight deck and declares that, "major combat operations in Iraq have ended."

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