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The Resolute desk in the Yellow Oval Room, in 1886, during the presidency of Grover Cleveland Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher reads the inscription on the front of the desk in 1979, accompanied by President Jimmy Carter. The Resolute desk in the Treaty Room in 1992 during the term of George H. W. Bush President Barack Obama and Vice President ...
Jacqueline Kennedy, John F. Kennedy's wife, thought the more ornately carved Resolute desk should be the most visible presidential desk. [15] [16] Upon Kennedy's assassination in 1963, the Resolute desk was sent on a national tour, and his successor Lyndon B. Johnson elected to use the desk he had used as a senator and as vice president.
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 presidents have used the Hoover desk, the Johnson desk, and the Wilson desk. [21] The Resolute desk, the current desk in use, is built from oak ...
The "red phone" that sat on the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office that he used to communicate with the US military in crisis. Presidential speeches with Carter's handwritten notes.
Koch inaccurately claims that Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford also brought their vice-presidential desks to the Oval Office; [15] in actuality, Ford had retained Nixon's presidential desk, the Wilson Desk. [16] Presidents that placed the Resolute Desk in their Oval Office, such as Jimmy Carter, had never been a vice president. Therefore, Koch ...
Sitting at the Resolute desk, he was serious and subdued and earnest, stumbling on a few words. ... 44% said he would be seen as a "failed" president. History's judgment may be kinder, Biden hopes.
Time magazine released its inauguration cover on Sunday ahead of Donald Trump's return to the White House, an animation of the incoming president shoving everything off the Oval Office Resolute ...
George W. Bush at the Resolute desk during 9/11, with the call button on the desk, to his left Barack Obama sitting at the Resolute desk with the button visible. An 1881 letter written by White House disbursing agent William H. Crook refers to an electric bell attached to president James Garfield's desk. [1]