USA Partisan: The Great Destabilization by Mark Steyn

The president’s guest also presented him with the framed commission for HMS Resolute, the lost British ship retrieved from the Arctic and returned by America to London, and whose timbers were used for a thank-you gift Queen Victoria sent to Rutherford Hayes: the handsome desk that now sits in the Oval Office.

In return, America’s head of state gave the prime minister 25 DVDs of “classic American movies.”