re: #250 Charles

Another possibility — since these were ornaments from previous administrations that the Obamas sent out to schoolchildren to decorate, wouldn’t it be ironic if this was from the Nixon administration — and the purpose of putting a picture of Mao on it was to commemorate Nixon’s diplomatic outreach to China?

Nah, couldn’t be. It must an attempt to “rehabilitate” Mao Tse-Tung.

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Nixon went in 1972; Warhol’s image was made in 1973, and probably wasn’t immediately available for use on an ornament.

Still, it’s at least as likely as the idea that a Chinese community group here in the states sent it, eh?