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    PETITION TO OBAMA TO FREE ARMENIAN "ORPHAN RUG"

    http://www.armradio.am/en/2013/10/31/petition-to-obama-to-free-armenian-orphan-rug/
    12:08 31.10.2013

    Petition posted on the White House website calls on the Obama
    Administration to share the Armenian Orphan Rug with the American
    people. The petition reads:

    "The White House should make available for public display to the
    Smithsonian Institution the rug woven by Armenian refugee orphans in
    1925 and given as a gift to President Calvin Coolidge to thank the
    American people for the generous humanitarian support they gave the
    Armenians after World War One."

    The Washington Post's shocking revelation that the White House has
    blocked a planned Smithsonian exhibit of an Armenian Genocide-era
    work of art has sparked thousands of calls and emails to Congress
    urging the public display of the historic "Armenian Orphan Rug"
    woven by child survivors of the Genocide.

    A bipartisan effort in Congress, spearheaded by Representatives David
    Valadao (R-CA) and Adam Schiff (D-CA), is collecting signatures on
    a letter calling on the White House to permanently and prominently
    display the rug.

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