She kept them under the hat...
A spokeswoman for Aretha Franklin says the Queen of Soul did more than serenade Barack Obama with “My Country ’Tis of Thee” at his inauguration.
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She also came bearing gifts.
Franklin spokeswoman Gwendolyn Quinn says Franklin gave the president a collection of 17 sermons by her late father, prominent Detroit minister the Rev. C.L. Franklin.
Quinn says Franklin also gave Obama a biography of her father and a Bible “engraved with a personal message.”
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