White House: We Don’t Have That Churchill Bust, After All

When Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney criticized President Obama for sending a bust of Winston Churchill back to England – a charge that was repeated by syndicated columnist Charles Krauthammer – the White House initially responded with immediate, cutting defensiveness. Specifically, White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer fired back on the charge, calling it a “rumor” that was “patently false,“ and citing Krauthammer as someone who had ”repeated this ridiculous claim.” In fact, Pfeiffer went so far as to post a picture of President Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron looking at a bust of Churchill, presumably the bust in question.

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