President Obama accepted $30,000 worth of gifts in final year in office

President Barack Obama accepted personal gifts worth $30,000 during his final year office, according to newly released disclosure forms by the Office of Government Ethics.

The most expensive of the 11 gifts was a five-volume set of Mr. Obama’s family genealogy, from the president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, valued at $8,300.

National Geographic gave him a wooden map case containing vintage maps, a gift valued at $7,000. And comedian Whoopi Goldberg gave Mr. Obama a framed photograph of boxer Muhammad Ali worth $5,250.

The disclosure forms also show that Mr. Obama took on debt of between $500,000 to $1 million as a promissory note to JPMorgan Chase Bank.

The documents, first reported by the International Business Times, also show Mr. Obama holding two positions outside office in Homefront Holdings LLC (since March 2016) and Renegade 44 LLC, since November. The documents did not explain what those entities are.

Presidents cannot accept gifts from foreign governments or officials, but may accept them from U.S. citizens. Mr. Obama’s other gifts were:

— A “replica Vince Lombardi trophy” worth $2,500.

— A “framed American flag carried during Operation Neptune Spear” valued at $2,520.

— A “signed and framed photograph of President John F. Kennedy” valued at $1,400.

— A “signed baseball bat” from retired baseball slugger Hank Aaron worth $900.

— A “print of Norman Rockwell’s ’The Problem We All Life With’” signed by civil rights activist Ruby Bridges Hall, worth $825.

— A “framed ballot from the election of 1964 in favor of President Abraham Lincoln” worth $465.

— A “Navy letterman-style jack” valued at $600.

— Three Pueblo-style native American pots, worth $704.