But when British officials offered to let Mr Obama to hang onto the bust for a further four years, the White House said: Thanks, but no thanks. Diplomats were at first reluctant to discuss the whereabouts of the Churchill bronze, after its ejection from the seat of American power. But the British Embassy in Washington has now confirmed that it sits in the palatial residence of ambassador Sir Nigel Sheinwald, just down the road from Vice President Joe Bidens official residence. It is not clear whether the ambassador plans to keep it in Washington or send it back to London. American politicians have made quoting Churchill, whose mother was American, something of an art form, but not Mr Obama, who prefers to cite the words and works of his hero Abraham Lincoln. Indeed a bust of Mr Lincoln now sits in the Oval Office where Epsteins Churchill once ruled the roost.
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