I will support Obama if he promises  

This room must contain
something by Charles and Ray Eames, something by George Nelson, something by Poul Kjaerholm or Arne Jacobsen, something by Florence Knoll or Aero Saarinen, something by Paul McCobb or Edward Wormley. A couple of cool Italian lamps, some high quality Bitossi or similar type pottery.

CB
They strike me as more of Crate & Barrel, Pottery Barn, Restoration Hardware types...

MCCOBB, EAMES and...
MCCOBB, EAMES and WORMLEY...very American...

Lots of people
support candidates for reasons more frivolous than yours.

yeah, like whether or not he'd be good to have a beer with
.

Heh-heh
good one, BTM. Not all our friends and neighbors will get that one, perhaps.
If jazz is a uniquely American contribution (and I suppose there must be exceptions to that presumption), then so perhaps is the Eames/Nelson/Knoll school of colorful and clean postwar modernism. . .? Would the Shaker forebear, a clean and minimal form of traditional design, also qualify as American contribution ?
(There, see ? A political thread needn't be scary. . .!)

I once heard that there is a ...
I once heard that there is a room in Buckingham Palace completely decorated in MCM style, done around the time of the Festival of Britain.

"high quality Bitossi". Right.
"high quality Bitossi". Right.

Not
so far fetched
President Mitterand of France had Pierre Paulin in at his offices at the Elycee
.. but then he was a known fan of modern design and was responsible in part for many of France's finer modern buildings.

It's President Pompidou who...
It's President Pompidou who was the first to bring modern design at the Elysée. But you are right, Mitterand also had furniture designed especially for him by Paulin and Starck.
Here is a picture of the Elysée in 1971.
Click on the link below for more pictures.
http://www.pixelcreation.fr/graphismeart-design/design-architecture/pier...

At one time
Royal (and presidential) patronage of the finest artists and artesans of the day was considered the norm. It was considered good taste to seek out the newest and latest things.
This seems to have fallen from favour sometime in the Early Twentieth Century, to the extent that we now have the Prince Of Wales commenting unfavourably on anything modern or forward-thinking and preferring a mock (Classical, rural or whatever) sentimentalist approach to what he considers 'design'
Is it the same in other European countries, or has Design become purely for the masses, I wonder ?
Other than Pompidou and Mitterand of France, has any other President, ruler or monarch of anywhere paid more than lip-service to the architects, designers and artists of the day ?
(other than the mandatory pre-election photocall )

I'd like to see
A Banksy piece on a prominent exterior wall of the White House.

I think that the closest ...
I think that the closest that we've come is a Sam Maloof rocking chair in the White House.

I'd have to guess the last...
I'd have to guess the last eight year White House mess has largely been La-Z-Boy and plasma.