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re: The Winston Churchill Bust - coming home!
Posted on 1/20/17 at 12:27 am to gthog61
Posted on 1/20/17 at 12:27 am to gthog61
Geebus!
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The bust of Winston Churchill given to the US in the 1960s remains on display at the White House. It was only gone for a short while to be repaired. It remains exactly where it has always been.
For a short time, we had TWO busts but, when the original was returned to the WH after being repaired, the copy was sent back to the Embassy. W kept the dummy bust in the oval office. Obama prefers a bust of Lincoln instead, in his Oval Office.
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The bust of Winston Churchill given to the US in the 1960s remains on display at the White House. It was only gone for a short while to be repaired. It remains exactly where it has always been.
For a short time, we had TWO busts but, when the original was returned to the WH after being repaired, the copy was sent back to the Embassy. W kept the dummy bust in the oval office. Obama prefers a bust of Lincoln instead, in his Oval Office.
Posted on 1/20/17 at 12:45 am to GeorgeWest
quote:
Geebus!
LINK
The bust of Winston Churchill given to the US in the 1960s remains on display at the White House. It was only gone for a short while to be repaired. It remains exactly where it has always been.
For a short time, we had TWO busts but, when the original was returned to the WH after being repaired, the copy was sent back to the Embassy. W kept the dummy bust in the oval office. Obama prefers a bust of Lincoln instead, in his Oval Office.
nice
but wrong
the bust given to Johnson is still in the White House
the bust given (or loaned) to Bush by Tony Blair was unceremoniously returned to the British Embassy:
From The New Yorker:
quote:
Fighting words. Pfeiffer, on the White House Web site, called this a “ridiculous claim” and “patently false”: “This is 100% false. The bust still in the White House. In the Residence. Outside the Treaty Room.” He included, as evidence, a photograph of President Obama and Prime Minister Cameron—or at least their backs—leaning over a Churchillian head on a side table. One problem: wrong Churchill bust. As Krauthammer next wrote, that one was given to Lyndon Johnson in the sixties. The other one—they are close copies, both by Sir Jacob Epstein—was loaned to George W. Bush after 9/11. (No house, apparently, is complete without two nearly identical busts of Winston Churchill.) When Obama moved in and redecorated, he didn’t ask for an extension of the loan and, instead, sent it back to the British Embassy, where it now, in the words of an Embassy statement on the matter to Mediaite, “resides.” Krauthammer demanded an apology, saying that the only question was whether Pfeiffer had been engaged in “deliberate deception.”
the White House DID give Krauthammer an apology, FWIW
in fact this is one of Charle's better quotes:
"(I am) the only entity on earth, other than rogue states, that has received an apology from the (Obama) White House."
turns out that the bust that Barry sent back was actually presented in July of 2001 link from c-span
so The New Yorker was wrong about the "after 9/11" thing (and so was I in OP on that point)
very nice try to prove me wrong though!
Those left wing "fact checkers" are wrong as often as the are correct
you might want to consider thinking for yourself and doing your own research
because links from an article in The New Yorker and video proof from c-span TRUMPS (SWIDT?) leftist propaganda "fact checking"
just trying to help you out brah
This post was edited on 1/20/17 at 6:37 am
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