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Barack Obama's staff called the owner of a religious gift shop in Philadelphia, Louis DiCocco, for advice as to what gift should be given to Pope Benedict XVI when the U.S. President meets him.

"Someone there remembered us from the Pope's last visit," the Washington Post quoted DiCocco as saying in a phone interview.

It may be significant to note that DiCocco's shop had designed and built the chair that was used by the pope when he met U.S. bishops in Washington last year.

And this time around, he and Obama's staff went back and forth for five days, trying to strike the right balance of history, significance, and sentiment. More...