Publishing date: Jan 22, 2021 • January 22, 2021 • 5 minute read • British Prime Minister Theresa May (L) and US President Donald Trump meet beside a bust of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the Oval Office of the White House on January 27, 2017 in Washington, DC. Photo by BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AF
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LONDON – When reporters toured the recently redecorated Oval Office on Wednesday, they took note of the symbolic changes in scenery that have come to stand in for an incoming U.S. president’s view of America. President Joe Biden led in with a huge portrait of wartime President Franklin D. Roosevelt and a bust of civil rights hero Rosa Parks.
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