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President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump sitting in the Oval Office with the Resolute desk, the desk they both used, in the background. Since the construction of the Oval Office in 1909, there have been six different desks used in the office by the president of the United States. [1]
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 C&O desk is one of six desks ever used in the Oval Office by a sitting President of the United States. The C&O Desk was used in the executive office by George H. W. Bush and is currently being temporarily used by Donald Trump. Prior to its use in the Oval Office by Bush, the desk had been in use elsewhere in the White House.
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Of the six desks used in the Oval Office, the Resolute desk has spent the longest time there, having been used by eight presidents in the room. The Resolute has been used by all U.S. presidents since 1977 with the exception of George H. W. Bush, who used the C&O desk for his one term, making it the shortest-serving desk to date. Other past ...
The president’s sentimental possessions sit atop a table just behind the Resolute Desk and were seen Monday night as Trump signed a series of executive orders just hours after he was sworn into ...
The $15 million project includes an exact replica of the 37th president's Oval Office. It was designed in the original 1969 décor of California blue and gold, which was hand selected by first ...
The desk in the Vice President's Room of the United States Capitol, colloquially known as the Wilson desk and previously called the McKinley-Barkley desk, is a large mahogany partner's desk used by U.S. Presidents Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford in the Oval Office as their Oval Office desk.