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The modern call button sits in an approximately 9 by 3 in (20 by 8 cm) wooden box marked with a golden presidential seal [11] [12] and has been on the Resolute desk since at least the George W. Bush presidency. [13] According to Richard Branson, President Obama repurposed it to order tea for his White House guests. [14]
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By 1969 the secretary was back in the White House collection and was loaned to the Smithsonian. [61] White House collection [62] Resolute desk: Rutherford B. Hayes: After receiving the desk in 1880, President Hayes placed it in the Green Room on exhibition until it was taken upstairs to his office on the second floor. [63]
The desk was removed from the White House after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, and went on a traveling exhibition with artifacts of the Kennedy Presidential Library. President Jimmy Carter brought the desk back to the White House in 1977, where it has remained since. Many replicas have been made of the Resolute desk.
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.
The Oval Office Study is a private office for the president of the United States. Located in the West Wing of the White House , it adjoins the Oval Office , the ceremonial office of the president. The Oval Office Study is one of a suite of rooms accessed in a private internal corridor from the Oval Office, which also includes the president's ...
The White House Office was established in the Executive Office of the President by Reorganization Plan 1 of 1939 and Executive Order 8248 to provide assistance to the president in the performance of activities incident to his immediate office. [3]
President Barack Obama surprises members of the Office of the Staff Secretary in the West Wing of the White House during an impromptu drop-by visit on May 21, 2009. The Staff Secretary ("Staff Sec") is a position in the White House Office responsible for managing paper flow to the President and circulating documents among senior staff for ...