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Obama Received $30,000 Worth of Gifts During Last Year of Administration

Barack Obama
AP
February 7, 2017

Former President Barack Obama accepted 11 gifts that totaled about $30,000 during the last year of his administration.

The most expensive gift, worth $8,300, was a five-volume set of Obama's family genealogy from the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, the New York Post reported Tuesday, citing newly released disclosure forms. The papers were submitted to the U.S. Office of Government Ethics on Jan. 18

Obama also received a "large wooden map case with vintage maps inside," gifted to him by National Geographic at a value of $7,000.

Whoopi Goldberg, co-host of ABC's "The View," gave Obama his third priciest present: a photo of boxer Muhammad Ali worth $5,250.

The least expensive gift reported was a "framed ballot from the election of 1864 in favor of President Abraham Lincoln," worth $465.

Other gifts included a $600 "navy letterman-style jacket" and a $2,520 "framed American flag carried during Operation Neptune Spear."

The rest of the accepted gifts, according to the Post, were:

  • "Three Native American pots in Pueblo style" (worth $704)
  • A "print of Norman Rockwell’s 'The Problem We All Life With' signed by Ruby Bridges Hall" (worth $825)
  • A "signed baseball bat" from former Major League slugger Hank Aaron (worth $900)
  • A "signed and framed photograph of President John F. Kennedy" (worth $1,400)
  • A "replica Vince Lombardi trophy" (worth $2,500)

Disclosure reports going back to 2010 reveal Obama had not accepted gifts in prior years of his administration, according to the International Business Times.