Barack Obama met the Queen at Buckingham Palace today and gave her a gift of an iPod loaded with video footage and photographs of her 2007 United States visit to Richmond, Jamestown and Williamsburg in Virginia. In return, the Queen gave the President a silver framed signed photograph of herself and the Duke of Edinburgh - apparently a standard present for visiting dignitaries.
It is believed the Queen already has an iPod, a 6GB silver Mini version she is said to have bought in 2005 at the suggestion of Prince Andrew.
UPDATE: Pool reporter Richard Wolf of USA Today says that an Obama aide told him the President also gave the Queen a "rare songbook signed by Richard Rodgers". END UPDATE
Did they pick that out of the SkyMall magazine on Air Force One?
Don't you think the queen already has pictures and videos of her 2007 visit? I saw a documentary on TV that had all that stuff. My guess is one of the grandkids will end up with the iPod.
The White House just doesn't seem to understand much about gift giving.
UPDATE: Barack Obama's Teleprompter adds this via Twitter:
Absolutely appropriate to give Richard Rogers show tunes book to a queen.UPDATE 2: According to ABC here's what was on the iPod:
Photos from the Queen's 2007 White House State Visit
Photos from the Queen's 2007 Jamestown, Va., Visit
Photos from the Queen's 2007 Richmond, Va., Visit
Video from the Queen's 1957 Jamestown Visit
Video from the Queen's 2007 Jamestown Visit
Video from the Queen's 2007 Richmond Visit
Photos from President Obama's Inauguration
Audio of then-state senator Obama's speech at the 2004 Democratic National Convention, and
Audio of President Obama 2009 Inauguration Address
He put his own speeches on there? That's gonna be regifted in record time.
And Jake Tapper is reporting via Twitter that angry libs are mad at ABC for reporting the iPod story. Hey, Tapper can't help it if your guy is a doofus.
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