$49,625 Rug Nancy Put in Oval Office Is Replaced by Bush
President Bush has pulled the rug on Nancy Reagan, replacing a $49,625 floor covering that she had installed in the Oval Office just 18 months ago.
The Reagan rug, two years in the design and making, had been purchased by an anonymous donor at Mrs. Reagan’s request.
“It was not terribly attractive. The President (Bush) did not like” the Reagan rug, said Larry Hokanson, president of the Houston company that made the new $28,550 rug.
The entire Oval Office was refurbished at a cost of $62,470 from private donors, a White House statement released Monday said.
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