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tnvoter
02-20-2009, 06:19 PM
I looked for another post but couldn't find one, so I hope its not repost.

Pretty interesting read anyways. Kinda p'd me off when I heard. Not that GWBush paid great respect to Churchill other than keeping the statue anyways.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/4623148/Barack-Obama-sends-bust-of-Winston-Churchill-on-its-way-back-to-Britain.html

enhanced_deficit
08-15-2017, 11:37 AM
Trump brought it back:

https://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/587bc7c31200001200ad7b07.jpg?ops=1910_1000



In context: The Winston Churchill and MLK busts
www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/.../context-winston-churchill-and-mlk-busts/ (http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/.../context-winston-churchill-and-mlk-busts/)
Jan 22, 2017 - A symbolic sculpture - ... "Obama started his presidency by returning to the British Embassy the bust of Winston Churchill ...



Trump brings Churchill bust back to Oval Office
www.cnn.com/2017/01/20/politics/trump-churchill-oval-office/index.html (http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/20/politics/trump-churchill-oval-office/index.html)
Jan 20, 2017 - President Donald Trump restored the bust of Winston Churchill to the Oval ... while the figure of Martin Luther King Jr. that former President Barack Obama had ... Obama returned the Churchill bust or refused to display the bust ...

Swordsmyth
08-15-2017, 11:38 AM
Neither bust belongs in the WH.