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A December 24, 1929 fire severely damaged the West Wing, including the Oval Office. President Herbert Hoover accepted the donation of a new desk from a group of Grand Rapids, Michigan, furniture-makers and used it as his Oval Office desk after the new office was completed. [30] [31] Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum,
The article explained the choice to move the desk to the Oval Office as, "Feeling that the desk, with its connection with the sea, would perfectly complement the naval battle scenes and the model of the Constitution which she already had secured at her husband's suggestion, Mrs. Kennedy has given the desk to the president and it was placed in ...
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 ...
The desk was the first one to be used in the Oval Office and remained in the room for twenty years, being used by Presidents Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover. [19] [1] Hoover notably had the first telephone installed in the Oval Office on this desk on in March 1929. [21]
Although the Oval Office was built in 1909, it retained the oval design to mirror those first three rooms in the original White House. (Don’t miss these 12 other mind-blowing White House facts ...
And though the new Richard Nixon Library and Museum gave visitors an up close and personal look into the life of the 37th president, his grandson did confess one cute item he kept in the Oval ...
After George H. W. Bush's presidential inauguration on January 20, 1989, the C&O desk was used in the residential portion of the White House, and on June 13, 1989, it was moved into the newly decorated Oval Office. [9] The Resolute desk, the Oval Office desk removed for the C&O, was placed briefly in the White House storage room, [9] but was ...
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.