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USA TODAY

George and Barbara Bush have gone platinum.

The Bushes are celebrating their 70th wedding anniversary today and extend their standing as the longest-married presidential couple. (They passed John and Abigail Adams, married for 54 years, in 2000.)

George Bush was 16 years old when he met Barbara Pierce at a dance. They were engaged right before Bush was shipped overseas as a naval pilot during World War II and married in Rye, N.Y.

Gallery: Former President George H.W. Bush