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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 ...
The Theodore Roosevelt desk in William Howard Taft's new Oval Office, 1909. The first Oval Office was constructed as part of the expansion of the West Wing to the White House in 1909 under President William Howard Taft. [9] The room was designed by Nathan C. Wyeth. He chose the Theodore Roosevelt desk, designed by Charles Follen McKim.
An Oval Office address is a type of speech made by the president of the United States, usually in the Oval Office at the White House. [1] It is considered among the most solemn settings for an address made by a leader, and is most often delivered to announce a major new policy initiative, on the occasion of a leader's departure from office, or ...
President Trump is known for his attention to decor. His penthouse, for example, is decked out in gold and Louis XIV-inspired furniture.The Oval Office, as it turns out, is no different. The White ...
President Trump decorated the Oval Office with a collage of family photos and other personal effects that were on full display during his first day back in the White House.
President Donald Trump has temporarily taken the 150-year-old Resolute Desk out of the Oval Office for refinishing. “A President, after election, gets a choice of 1 in 7 desks,” Trump wrote on ...
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. [17] Bush used the C&O desk in the Oval Office instead. [1]
The Hoover desk, also known colloquially as FDR's Oval Office desk, is a large block front desk, used by Presidents Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt in the Oval Office. Created in 1930 as a part of a 17-piece office suite by furniture makers from Grand Rapids, Michigan , the Art Deco desk was given to the White House by the Grand Rapids ...