Gifts to President Are Carted to Storage

The Dayton Daily News is running This Associated Press Story on the gifts given to President Bush from foreign leaders.
They say gifts barely brush the president\’s hands before being carted off, crated and left to gather dust.

Thousands of gifts are carefully stored, but only a relatively few make it into displays at the presidential libraries; there are simply too many to exhibit.
The Constitution says the president cannot accept any foreign present without the consent of Congress