WASHINGTON — A special visitor to the Oval Office soon will be moving on.
A rare copy of the Emancipation Proclamation, signed by President Abraham Lincoln, arrived in the Oval Office for Martin Luther King Jr. Day in January and has been hanging out just above a bronze bust of King ever since.
The original plan was for the proclamation, which previously had been on loan to the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, to move from the Oval Office to the Lincoln Bedroom after six months.
But now its destination when it leaves in mid- July is a mystery. Owner David Rubenstein, a billionaire businessman, plans to move it to “a new home where many people will get to see it,” said spokesman Christopher Ullman. “It will soon be revealed where that will be.”
