[tanknetter]

After Brown presented Obama with a pen holder crafted from the timbers of the 19th century British warship HMS President (whose sister ship, HMS Resolute, provided the wood for the Oval Office's desk),

Probably a bit off-thread here, but I wonder if the "HMS President" mentioned above was really the Humphreys 44-gun US Frigate (half-sister to the USS Constitution) that was captured by the RN during the war of 1812, or a later brit warship that was given the name (as was practice for captured ships at the time).

[Oztrich Boy]

Actually two steps away (see my post above)