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Bust on display in the Oval Office on January 11, 2024. A bronze bust of Martin Luther King Jr. was made by African-American artist Charles Alston in 1970, two years after King was assassinated. Alston received a commission from the Reverend Donald S. Harrington, of the Community Church of New York, to create a bust of King for $5,000. Five ...
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 ...
The Resolute desk has been used by every president since in this room except for George H. W. Bush who used it for five months in the Oval Office before moving it to his Residence Office in the Treaty Room of the White House. [16] Bush used the C&O desk in the Oval Office instead. [1]
A bronze bust of Mexican-American labor leader César Chávez sits behind the Resolute Desk in President Joe Biden's Oval Office.
President Trump has reportedly brought a bust of Winston Churchill back to the Oval Office after Obama had removed it, in favor of one representing MLK.
WASHINGTON, DC - NOVEMBER 10: President-elect Donald Trump (L) talks after a meeting with U.S. President Barack Obama (R) in the Oval Office November 10, 2016 in Washington, DC.
Bust in the Oval Office in 2017, to the right of the fireplace (seated, Angela Merkel and Donald Trump). Jacob Epstein's bronze bust of Winston Churchill was completed in 1947 and cast in an edition often said to number 10 (but more, perhaps 12 or 16, are thought to exist).
Bust of John F. Kennedy: Nashua, New Hampshire. Downtown 1965 Evangelos Frudakis [46] Bust of President Kennedy New York City, New York. Grand Army Plaza. 1965 Bust of President John F. Kennedy Boston, Massachusetts. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum. Felix de Weldon The John F. Kennedy Bust Washington, D.C.