THE TRIUMPH OF HISTORY – AT 1:26 P.M. ET:  A piece of sculpture is finding its way back to the Oval Office.  From Britain's Telegraph: 

Donald Trump has made no secret of the fact that he intends to rip up Barack Obama's legacy when he takes office - ending the Trans-Pacific Partnership, redrawing Obamacare and loading up Guantanamo with "some bad dudes".

However, one expected action is likely to be less controversial, certainly in Britain: that of restoring the bust of Winston Churchill to the Oval Office.

Mr Trump, who has frequently professed his admiration for Britain's wartime leader, was asked earlier this week whether he was considering returning the bust, sculpted by Jacob Epstein, to the White House.

“I am, indeed, I am,” he said, during an interview at the New York Times, at which he was sitting in front of a picture of Churchill.

Mr Obama replaced the Churchill bust with one of Martin Luther King in the Oval Office in 2009, soon after he took over the presidency, causing outrage on both sides of the Atlantic.

Boris Johnson controversially wrote earlier this year, while he was Mayor of London, that Mr Obama's decision to send the bust back to the British embassy in Washington had been a “snub to Britain”.

COMMENT:  When, in 1939, Churchill regained his position as First Lord of the Admiralty, a post he had held a quarter century earlier, a signal went out to the Royal Navy, "Winston is back."

Now we can send the same message throughout the United States government.  And it will symbolize the enduring British-American partnership.

January 7, 2017