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2. Theodore Roosevelt desk - Wikipedia

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   53.5 in (136 cm) The desk in the Vice President's Ceremonial Office in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building, colloquially known as the Theodore Roosevelt desk, is a large mahogany pedestal desk in the collection of the White House. It is the first of six desks that have been used by U.S. presidents in the Oval Office, and since 1961 has ...

3. List of Oval Office desks - Wikipedia

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   Richard Nixon used this desk in the Eisenhower Executive Office Building where Stephen Hess of the Brookings Institution presumes, "the Watergate tapes were made by an apparatus concealed in its drawer". [3] Vice President's Ceremonial Office, Eisenhower Executive Office Building, Washington, D.C. [27] Woodrow Wilson: Warren G. Harding: Calvin ...

4. Resolute desk - Wikipedia

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   48 in (120 cm) The Resolute desk, also known as the Hayes desk, is a nineteenth-century partners desk used by several presidents of the United States in the White House as the Oval Office desk, including the five most recent presidents. The desk was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880 and was built from the oak ...

5. Desk - Wikipedia

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   Desk. A desk or bureau is a piece of furniture with a flat table -style work surface used in a school, office, home or the like for academic, professional or domestic activities such as reading, writing, or using equipment such as a computer. [1] [2] Desks often have one or more drawers, compartments, or pigeonholes to store items such as ...

6. Hoover desk - Wikipedia

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   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 ...

7. Wilson desk - Wikipedia

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   The Wilson desk is a mahogany double- pedestal desk with ornate carving. [2] [3] The 31 in (79 cm) high desk has a workspace which is 80.75 in (205.1 cm) wide and 58.25 in (148.0 cm) deep. [4] The knee-hole extends all the way through the desk and both pedestals contain drawers on both the front and back of the units.