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United States 1971-D Eisenhower Dollar Even though the United States had no real need for a large dollar coin at the start of the 1970s, the gaming industry developed an acute need to find a replacement for the silver dollars used to feed tens of thousands of slot machines. This “need”, and the recent death of beloved war-hero-turned-president Dwight D. Eisenhower, presented the United States Congress with an opportunity to cater to the needs of the industry. While Mint Director Mary Brooks lobbied for the coin to be struck in silver, Congress instead chose to strike the coin for circ...

>> the flag kind of wrinkles, so we had to make it look like it's going in the breeze. >> reporter: and taking photos of his foot prints. >> every time you'd put your foot down, you'd spray out dust. you put your foot down, it's like no other footprint in the sand or dust on earth. you have a perfect imprint. those are -- turn out to be little dam things in the spirit of the moment. but they can be very meaningful, too. >> reporter: this medal, you received this for -- >> that's the presidential medal of freedom. >> reporter: he keeps memorabilia at his home office and made a point of showing ...

>> and now they have their own mission patch for the search for flight 370, and all of the folks taking part from so many countries, and thank you, kyung lah, taking part in the search from australia. >> and joining us is a 777 pilot tom fuentes, and assistant analyst and former fbi investigator and faa investigator, and so, steve, if i could start with you, search planes returning to the sky in a few minutes. how can can they make the best of the daylight hours, and the other challenge is that it takes most of the aircraft four hours to get there and then a couple of hours on site and then tu...

International space station. atlantis was last launched in november last year, and this was its 31st launch. it rolled out of the factory back in 1985, had a very first launch and mission in november of 1985, just a few months before the challenger disaster. now, the mission patch, every mission of every space shuttle has a special patch that is designed to reflect particular nature of the mission. this one showed atlantis flying off into the sunset. it's going to be busy mission, 12 days, three space walks. they're going to install a russian module. spare parts, a radiator and you know we're ...