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Stephen Colbert convinced the National Portrait Gallery to hang his portrait. “His portrait was hung Wednesday at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Portrait Gallery in Washington for a six-week showing in what the museum considers an “appropriate place”  right between the bathrooms near the “America’s Presidents” exhibit. Museum officials stress it’s only temporary.”