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Churchill Bust Returns to Oval Office

January 20, 2017 · 8:47 pm ET · Leave a Comment

President Donald Trump has returned a bust of Winston Churchill to the Oval Office, “undoing former President Obama’s most contentious interior decorating decision,” Politico reports.

“The Churchill bust had become a source of huge Republican outcry through the Obama presidency, with critics charging that then-president was turning his back on history and insulting America’s strongest ally. There were claims that Obama had put it in storage or returned it to the British government as a metaphor for his changing worldview—but none of those were true. He had moved it to a different place in the White House, in the Treaty Room on the second floor, which is in the residence, out of public view.”

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