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2. Theodore Roosevelt desk - Wikipedia

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   The desk was described in a 1949 article in Parade Magazine as being "time-worn, fire-scarred, [and] repainted". [4] Beginning in the 1940s, each user of the desk signed the interior of the center drawer at the end of their term in office. [5]

3. Fall-front desk - Wikipedia

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   Thus, the fall-front desk is identical in shape to a Bargueño desk, which would have been placed on a stand of drawers, or more precisely to the form known as desk on a chest or as "chest-on chest". The fall-front desk is also called a drop-front desk, and sometimes also a drop-lid desk. Scrutoire and scriptoire are ancient variations.

4. 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 ...

5. List of Oval Office desks - Wikipedia

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   It remained in storage until 1945 when Harry S. Truman placed it in the modern Oval Office. 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,

6. Resolute desk - Wikipedia

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   The desk is decorated with carved moldings and carved floral swag designs. [3] [4] There are sets of drawers behind the cabinet doors on each side of the desk pedestals, [5] [6] and the desktop is covered with red leather. [7] Built at the same time as the Grinnell desk, the two desks together cost 380 pounds (equivalent to £47,780 in 2023). [8]

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.