Top present giver to Obama family FILE In this March 30, 2010 file photo, President Barack Obama listens as thenFrench President Nicolas Sarkozy speaks in the East Space of the White House in Washington. New documents display that Sarkozy and his wife Carla Bruni showered President Barack Obama and his family members with more than $41,000 really worth of gifts in 2011. (AP Photograph/Susan Walsh, File) (Credit score: canada goose outlet deutschland AP) WASHINGTON (AP) Previous French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his supermodel spouse Carla Bruni were clearly taken with President Barack Obama and his family members back again in 2011. The Sarkozys gave the Obamas more than $forty one,000 worth of presents that year, turning into the most prolific international giftgivers to the first family, documents released Friday show. officials from foreign leaders and publishes an yearly accounting, often 1 or two many years late because of to processing. Amongst the goodies presented to the Obamas by the Sarkozys were a big black Hermes golf accessory bag really worth $seven,750, two Baccarat crystal desk lamps on silver pedestals really worth $5,five hundred, two Baccarat crystal statuettes depicting golfers, a monogrammed black leather-based Louis Vuitton business bag, hisandhers Christian Dior bathrobes and a black leather-based Dior clutch. Sarkozy also gave Obama a glass sculpture of Alexander the Fantastic horse, a Lacoste shirt, a fountain pen and, perhaps in a nod to his tobaccousing times, a Ligne 8 lighter. officers are despatched to the Nationwide Archives or canada goose outlet Common Services Administration unless of course the recipient reimburses the Treasury for their approximated value. The Sarkozys largesse may have been a perform of France hosting the Group of 8 summit in 2011, at which the world financial disaster was a primary subject of discussion, but most other leaders presents to the Obamas were much more modest. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, for example, gave the president an autographed Toronto Raptors basketball, while Australian Prime Minister offered him with a green and white iPod shuffle and Australian football jerseys. One exception was a selection of billiga uggs artwork worth $13,two hundred that was given to Obama by the governor of kopior uggs the Mexican condition of Oaxaca. Although the Sarkozys were the top presidential giftgivers in 2011, the single most beneficial package of goodies $29,450 in art, watches and electronics was offered to previous joint chiefs of staff chairman Gen. Mike Mullen by Kuwait emir. Deputy CIA director Michael Morrell might have obtained the most unusual gift in 2011, a silver hookah worth $one,500 from a giver whose identification is categorized. Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton didn make out so terribly either in 2011, getting a $three,400 silver bowl and a $7,425 gold coin and silk scarf from the Sultan of Oman, a $three,200 strand of pearls from a senior Chinese formal and artwork from the President of Tajikistan really worth $2,850. The most lavish present offered to Clinton arrived from the initial woman of Zambia, who offered