Aly Raisman and friends visit the White House
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11/15/2012 7:06 PM
Members of the 2012 Women's Olympic Gymnastics team, from left, Aly Raisman, Kyla Ross, Gabby Douglas, and Jordyn Wieber react to the wind gust caused by the Marine One helicopter taking off with President Barack Obama aboard from the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 15, 2012. Obama had meet with the team earlier in private meeting in the Oval Office. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Needham Olympian Aly Raisman and her fellow gold medal-winning gymnast friends visited the White House on Thursday to meet with President Obama. He blew them away at the end of their visit when he took off from the South Lawn in Marine One, bound for New York.
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