President and Mrs. Johnson Receive Bust of Winston Churchill
In this photograph, taken by National Geographic photographer Joseph J. Scherschel on October 6, 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson and First Lady Lady Bird Johnson are presented a bronze bust of former British Prime Minister Winston Churchill in the Yellow Oval Room of the White House. Churchill had passed away the previous January. The bust was designed by American-British sculptor Jacob Epstein. Attendees at the acceptance ceremony included the prime minister's grandson Winston Churchill III, British Ambassador to the United States Patrick Dean, United States Ambassador to Great Britain David Bruce, former New York Governor W. Averell Harriman, journalist Edward T. Folliard, and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jr., the son of the former president. Another bronze Churchill bust by Epstein was loaned to the White House during the administration of President George W. Bush while this one was out for conservation work.