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Obama Offers PM Brown Gifts from Local Strip Mall...

Gifts that Prime Minister Brown gave Obama:

1. Ornamental pen holder made from the timbers of the Victorian anti-slave ship HMS Gannet (Oak from the Gannet's sister ship, HMS Resolute, was carved to make a desk that has sat in the Oval Office in the White House since 1880).
2. Framed commission for HMS Resolute.
3. A first edition set of the famous seven-volume biography of Churchill by Sir Martin Gilbert.
4. Showered gifts on the Obama children giving Sasha and Malia an outfit each from Topshop (with matching necklaces) and six author's copies of children's books by British authors which are shortly to be published in America.

Gifts that Obama Gave prime Minister Brown:

1. DVD box set of 25 classic American films.
2. For the Prime Ministers two sons; toy models of Marine One, the President's helicopter — gifts no doubt plucked from the White House gift shop at the last minute...
   
   

Classy...

London aghast at President Obama over gifts given to Prime Minister Brown

To my special friend Gordon, 25 DVDs: Obama gives Brown a set of classic movies. Let's hope he likes the Wizard of Oz.