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2. Wilson desk - Wikipedia

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   The desk in the Vice President's Room of the United States Capitol, colloquially known as the Wilson desk and previously called the McKinley-Barkley desk, is a large mahogany partner's desk used by U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford in the Oval Office as their Oval Office desk.

3. List of Oval Office desks - Wikipedia

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   This desk was used by Johnson from the time he was in the United States Senate up through his tenure in the Oval Office. [34] It is one of only two desks to date, along with the C&O desk, to serve only one president. Lyndon Baines Johnson Library and Museum, Austin, Texas [18] Wilson desk: Richard Nixon: 80.75 by 58.25 inches (205.1 by 148.0 cm ...

4. Vice President's Room - Wikipedia

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   The double-pedestal, mahogany desk in the room is called the Wilson desk, due to associations with President Woodrow Wilson and Vice President Henry Wilson. Every vice president from Hobart to Lyndon Johnson used it. In 1969, it was loaned to the White House as the Oval Office desk for Presidents Nixon and Ford. It was returned in 1977.

5. Oval Office - Wikipedia

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   The Oval Office has become associated in Americans' minds with the presidency itself through memorable images, such as a young John F. Kennedy, Jr. peering through the front panel of his father's desk, President Richard Nixon speaking by telephone with the Apollo 11 astronauts during their moonwalk, and Amy Carter bringing her Siamese cat Misty Malarky Ying Yang to brighten her father ...

6. Nixon White House tapes - Wikipedia

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   In February 1971, a sound-activated taping system was installed in the Oval Office, including in Nixon's Wilson desk, using Sony TC-800B open-reel tape recorders [2] to capture audio transmitted by telephone taps and concealed microphones. [3] The system was expanded to include other rooms within the White House and Camp David. [3]

7. Prominent Legal Advocate To Be Freed After 37 Years In Prison

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   When Wilson saw the toy phone on his desk, he laughed politely and moved it to a nearby shelf, where it remained for nearly a year. But in January 2021, prison officials confiscated the toy phone ...