http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/nilegardiner/100173449/white-house-issues-humiliating-apology-to-charles-krauthammer-over-churchill

Here is the full text of Pfeiffer¹s mea culpa, published on the White House blog in the form of an open letter to Mr. Krauthammer:

Charles,
I take your criticism seriously and you are correct that you are owed an apology. There was clearly an internal confusion about the two busts and there was no intention to deceive. I clearly overshot the runway in my post. The point I was trying to make ­ under the belief that the Bust in the residence was the one previously in the Oval Office­ was that this oft repeated talking point about the bust being a symbol of President Obama¹s failure to appreciate the special relationship is false. The bust that was returned was returned as a matter of course with all the other artwork that had been loaned to President Bush for display in his Oval Office and not something that President Obama or his Administration chose to do. I still think this is an important point and one I wish I had communicated better.

A better understanding of the facts on my part and a couple of deep breaths at the outset would have prevented this situation. .............. even if it comes after my apology

Thanks,

Dan Pfeiffer