It's better than the DVDs, but the iPod still doesn't seem like a particularly good gift for an 82 year woman. But, who knows, maybe she'll love it; maybe she wanted one, (but if she did, it'd seem like she'd already have one.)
I think I'm just a fan of boringly traditional gifts for heads of state, now that we've been talking about it. If you can make a gift symbolic, so much the better, but I'd avoid technological stuff for octogenarians.
ETA: actually, now that I've seen what was uploaded
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpu...oes-one-g.html onto it, I like it better. I would have only put one Obama thing on it, but to give the Queen video of her state visit to the US in 1957 just seems really cute.
The songbook seems nice by my traditional standards.
The fact that "In return, the queen gave the Obamas a signed portrait of herself and her husband inside a silver frame," just makes me laugh. She wasn't really putting herself out, was she? Do you suppose it was a reflection of what happened with Brown?