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<blockquote data-quote="prodromos" data-source="post: 77663009" data-attributes="member: 19467"><p>The article states it was given to the Dutch prime minister by J. William Middendorf, the former American ambassador to the Netherlands, not by the astronauts. However, there is nothing to actually link the rock with any gift given by the ambassador. The rock and the card that is displayed with it in the museum were both among the personal effects of the former prime minister which his family sorted through after he died and it seems likely that they mistakenly linked the two. The card does not mention what was given, which could have been a bunch of flowers or a bottle of champagne. If it was something as valuable as a lunar rock sample it certainly would have mentioned it. There is also the fact that Willem Drees was an ex-prime minister who had retired a decade earlier and was nearly deaf and blind when he received the gift associated with the card. Why would the US ambassador give such a supposedly valuable gift to a relatively unknown former politician and not to the Dutch royal family? He wouldn't and didn't. Nor were any lunar rock samples given to anyone else at the event described.</p><p>It isn't clear where Drees got the petrified wood that was among his personal effects but he didn't get it from the ambassador and certainly not from the astronauts. It had nothing to do with the card that was subsequently associated with it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="prodromos, post: 77663009, member: 19467"] The article states it was given to the Dutch prime minister by J. William Middendorf, the former American ambassador to the Netherlands, not by the astronauts. However, there is nothing to actually link the rock with any gift given by the ambassador. The rock and the card that is displayed with it in the museum were both among the personal effects of the former prime minister which his family sorted through after he died and it seems likely that they mistakenly linked the two. The card does not mention what was given, which could have been a bunch of flowers or a bottle of champagne. If it was something as valuable as a lunar rock sample it certainly would have mentioned it. There is also the fact that Willem Drees was an ex-prime minister who had retired a decade earlier and was nearly deaf and blind when he received the gift associated with the card. Why would the US ambassador give such a supposedly valuable gift to a relatively unknown former politician and not to the Dutch royal family? He wouldn't and didn't. Nor were any lunar rock samples given to anyone else at the event described. It isn't clear where Drees got the petrified wood that was among his personal effects but he didn't get it from the ambassador and certainly not from the astronauts. It had nothing to do with the card that was subsequently associated with it. [/QUOTE]
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