embassy, the bust of winston churchill that had graced the oval office. on the white house blog, dan pheiffer called that patently false and ridiculous claim. writing the bust is still in the white house in the residence, outside the treaty room. he even included a picture of president obama showing prime minister david cameron the bust in 2010. case closed, right? well, no. it s not that simple. it turns out there are two busts. the bust that was loaned to president george w. bush after 9-11 that was in the oval office, the one charles krauthammer referenced was, in fact, returned to the british embassy after that administration ended. that bust, now resides at the british ambassador s washington, d.c. residence. the white house collection has had a second churchill bust for decades, which is the one pheiffer says is on display in the residence. late today, pheiffer updated his blog post noting the two busts,
ambassador. it s in his residence here in d.c pheiffer updated later saying the idea put forward by charles krauthammer and others that president obama returned the churchill bust will refuse to display the bust because of antipathy toward the british is completely false. not saying that he got it wrong the first time. charles? it s astonishing. he doubled down. all he had to say was, we got it wrong the first time. the british ambassador today said that the bust that s in his residence is the one that was returned when obama came into office, exactly as i had written 100% as i had written. so not being able to deny it, he pretends it never happened and he says the idea that the bust was returned is false. then he talks about the reason that the bust was returned was because of antipathy. i never talked about antipathy. he should have hornably have said we made a mistake. there was an old bust in the white house, been around for 50 years. we got them confused. that would have been un