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The President and First Lady received these uniquely sculpted busts from artist John Quates of Inkster, MI, late in the administration. The bust of President Obama is made from a basketball with painted plaster features and shaved tennis ball fibers mounted on a mosaic tile platform with an engraved name plate that reads: “M.V.P. BARACK OBAMA MOST VALUABLE PRESIDENT.”
Collection: Barack Obama Artifact Collection, Domestic Gifts
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A book entitled "Why Every Fly Counts: A Documentation about the Value and Endangerment of Insects" was gifted to President Obama by the author, Dr. Hans-Dietrich Reckhaus, in response to a fly interrupting a 2016 MSNBC interview. The author was inspired by the President's casual "solution" to the fly.
Collection: Barack Obama Artifact Collection, Domestic Gifts
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A canvas print of the painting, entitled "He Who," made by internationally renowned visual artist Bunky Echo-Hawk. He created the artwork live during an event at the 2008 Democratic National Convention in Denver, Colorado. Echo-Hawk was inspired to create the piece after hearing then-candidate Obama speak during a campaign visit to Crow Agency, Montana, in May 2008. Obama was given the honorary Crow name of "He Who Helps Many Throughout The Land" when he was adopted as an honorary member of the Crow Nation by the Black Eagle family.
Collection: Barack Obama Artifact Collection, Domestic Gifts
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Print of an acrylic on canvas painting of the President and First lady in a 1961 Corvette overlooking Bellows Beach with Bo and Sunny playing on the beach.
Collection: Barack Obama Artifact Collection, Domestic Gifts
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As thanks for the creation of the White House Council on Women and Girls and the positive example that it sets for the rest of the world, Ambassador Swanee Hunt gifted these brass crosses to Tina Tchen, Executive Director of the Council. The crosses are made from bullet casings, used in Liberia’s civil war, that were bought as souvenirs in Monrovia. Each is inscribed on the base with the make and year - one is from 1977 and the other is from 1980.
Collection: Barack Obama Artifact Collection, Obama Administration Artifacts
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Collection: Records of the First Lady's Office of Joining Forces (Obama Administration)