He was pointing out that, even after the removal from the Oval Office of the bust of Winston Churchill (on loan from the British government), there is still a bust of a British statesman in the White House
It is of John Bright, famous Victorian radical, free trade campaigner & supporter of the North during the Civil War. The bust was presented to Abraham Lincoln
There is a reciprocal link in the statue in Manchester’s Lincoln Square, on the plinth of which are inscribed some of the words from Lincoln’s letter of 1863 to The Working Men of Manchester
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