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To: Neeka who wrote (404856)	1/17/2011 5:24:50 PM
From: KLP	1 Recommendation Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 794335

Re the return of Churchill's bust from Obama.... This bit from the article you found makes some sense of why O returned it....He evidently thought then HE was Supreme Overlord of America....and didn't want to be reminded of anything to do with GWB....from 9-11 to Iraq and Afghanistan. Certainly didn't want to be reminded every day of a figure like Churchill who held England and the Western Allies together during the terrible WWII.... Heaven forbid that Obama would have to have a giant and towering figure as a reminder every day of what courage really is..... Thanks for the find.. >>>>> That's certainly how the spiky British press responded after the White House sent back to the British Embassy a bust of Sir Winston Churchill that had occupied a cherished spot in President Bush's Oval Office. Intended as a symbol of transatlantic solidarity, the bust was a loaner from former British prime minister Tony Blair following the September 11 attacks. A bust of Abraham Lincoln—Obama's historical hero—now sits in its place <<<<<