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This replica of a traditional Moroccan instrument was a gift to Secretary of State John Kerry on the occasion of his April 4, 2014 meeting in Rabat with Foreign Minister Salaheddine Mezouar for the second round of talks of the U.S.-Morocco Strategic Dialogue. The Strategic Dialogue started in 2012 as a means…
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During a May 10, 2013 meeting at the Department of State with Ukrainian Foreign Minister Kozhara, Secretary of State John Kerry discussed bilateral issues including security, trade, and economic relations as well as the Ukrainian Chairmanship in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) at the time.
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At a meeting in Washington in September 2011, the Prime Minister of Kuwait presented this statuette of a falcon to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. It depicts a hooded falcon perched on a gloved hand, representing the traditional practice of falconry in the country.
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In May 2011, President Barack Obama embarked on a state visit to the United Kingdom. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton accompanied President Obama to London for the first part of his visit. While in London, Secretary Clinton received this pair of autographed portraits from Queen Elizabeth II and her husband, Prince Philip,…
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This locket and diamond ring were gifts to Secretary Condoleezza Rice from Muammar Qadhafi in 2008. She was the first U.S. Secretary of State to visit Libya in over 50 years and was the most senior U.S. official to ever meet with Colonel Qadhafi. The locket has Qadhafi’s image engraved on the…
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John Campbell served as U.S. Ambassador to Nigeria from 2004-2007. The Fulani herdsmen community of northern Nigeria gave him this herdsman’s staff, hat, and dress after the Office of Defense Cooperation at the embassy drilled a water borehole in their village, providing a vital resource in a rural and arid environment.
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The piece of jagged metal atop this item was part of a missile destroyed under the terms of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty of 1987, signed by President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev. Small pieces of metal were salvaged from one of the many nuclear weapons disabled and destroyed…
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Silver tray given to Chargé d’Affaires Lloyd M. Rives by General Lon Nol, Prime Minister of the Khmer Republic (Cambodia). Rives re-opened the Embassy in Phnom Penh, Cambodia’s capital, in August 1969 after it had been closed for more than four years. The ongoing war in neighboring Vietnam created challenges in the…
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This handmade quilt was a gift to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf of Liberia in 2009. The inscription "It Takes a Village" is a reference to the title of Clinton's 1996 book, It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us, written while she was First…
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This bottle of vodka in the shape of an AK-47 assault rifle was a lighthearted gift from Russian Foreign Minister Igor Ivanov to Secretary Colin Powell on the occasion of his 65th birthday in 2002. Also known as a Kalashnikov rifle, it was originally designed in the 1940’s for the Soviet military.…
