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Mom, May I rule the world?
- Mother Russia: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin with his mother, Maria Ivanovna, in July 1958.
- Dreams of my mother: U.S. President Barack Obama with his mother, Stanley Ann Dunham, in an undated snapshot from the 1960s.
- Dear Mother: North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and a woman believed to be his mother, Kim Jong Suk.
- Meet the Browns: British Prime Minister Gordon Brown (front left) with his family, including his mother Jessie, who went by "Bunty" (second from right).
- First family: Posing on his bike with his family in 1974 is a young Bashar al-Assad (far right), future president of Syria. Bashar's mother, Anisah Makhlouf, stands behind her children, as does his father, then-president of Syria Hafez al-Assad.
- Mother in America: Future U.S. President Ronald Reagan with his mother, Nelle, and father, John "Jack," in California, circa 1938.
- Mama and Dima: Future Russian President Dmitry Medvedev pictured here as a young boy with his mother, Yulia Veniaminovna Medvedeva, (far right).
- Mother Milhous: Future U.S. President Richard Milhous Nixon with his mother, Hannah Milhous Nixon, outside her home in August 1951.
- Queen mother: In August 1965 the future king of Jordan, Abdullah, sits on his mother Muna's lap while his father, King Hussein, looks on.
- Mother of the groom: Tadj ol-Molouk walks down the aisle with her son Mohammed Reza Shah Pahlavi and bride-to-be Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari in 1951.
- At home with mother: Sara Roosevelt holds court with son Franklin Delano Roosevelt, then the Democratic nominee for vice president, and his wife Eleanor in 1920.
- The first mother: Barbara Bush sits beside her son George Walker Bush and her husband George Herbert Walker Bush, long before they become U.S. presidents, in Rye, New York, in the summer of 1955.
- Like mother, like daughter: A young future Queen Elizabeth II walks with her mother, the Duchess of York, (later to become the Queen Mother) in January 1931.
- Mummy's little prince: Queen Elizabeth II, then princess, at Balmoral estate with her son Prince Charles, looking on as he rides in his toy car.
