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Share the Armenian Orphan Rug with the American People

Created by K.W. on October 25, 2013

The White House should make available for public display to the Smithsonian Institution the rug woven by Armenian refugee orphans in 1925 and given as a gift to President Calvin Coolidge to thank the American people for the generous humanitarian support they gave the Armenians after World War One.

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