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Old 21-01-2021, 14:05   #4
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Re: President Joe Biden’s first 100 days in office

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Originally Posted by Mick View Post
The bust of Winston Churchill is gone from Oval Office that Trump put back in 2017, but it goes during a revamp yesterday.
Here's an article about what is in the re-decorated Oval Office - one thing I didn't know was that the Churchill bust (by the sculptor Epstein) was first lent to George W Bush in 2001 by the British Government for the duration of his term(s).

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The bust in question, by British sculptor Jacob Epstein, was given to President George W Bush by the British government and was placed in the Oval Office. But the statue was not donated, it was simply on loan for Bush’s term in office (a loan which the British government decided to extend when Bush was re-elected in 2004). Churchill disappeared from the White House in 2009, when the loan ended at the same time that Obama moved in.

So how was the White House able to claim in 2012 that the bust was still there? When writing the blogpost, the then communications director Dan Pfeiffer simply neglected to mention the fact that there are two Churchill busts – the one on loan to Bush from 2001 to 2009, and a second bust which the White House has had since the 1960s and still has to this day – a fact which Pfeiffer later had to clarify in an at the end of the post.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/...office-britain
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