In 1921, Curie traveled to the United States to publicly accept the gift, arriving in New York City on May 11, aboard the Olympia. On May 20, she was received at the White House by President Warren G. Harding, shown in the photo to the right. Harding presented Curie with the radium, "the gift of the American women," according to the Washington Post's round-up of events that appeared in the next day's paper. Afterwards, Curie embarked on a tightly-scheduled, six-week whirlwind tour of major U.S. cities that doubled as a fund-raising campaign for the Radium Institute. Curie received a variety of honorary degrees and awards, and toured laboratories and radium production facilities.