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  • Thumbnail for Oval Office
    The Oval Office is the formal working space of the president of the United States. Part of the Executive Office of the President of the United States...
    72 KB (5,564 words) - 02:58, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Theodore Roosevelt desk
    the first of six desks that have been used by U.S. presidents in the Oval Office, and since 1961 has been used as the desk of the U.S. Vice President...
    29 KB (3,012 words) - 00:09, 19 August 2024
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    office for the president of the United States. The West Wing contains the Oval Office, the Cabinet Room, the Situation Room, and the Roosevelt Room. The West...
    14 KB (1,459 words) - 22:26, 25 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for C&O desk
    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...
    23 KB (2,514 words) - 00:37, 15 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Presidential call button
    Some presidents of the United States have had a red call button in the Oval Office of the White House that could call aides. The earliest incarnation dates...
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  • Thumbnail for List of Oval Office desks
    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. The desk...
    47 KB (2,704 words) - 03:14, 22 August 2024
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    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...
    18 KB (1,890 words) - 03:44, 24 May 2024
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    Nixon and Gerald Ford in the Oval Office as their Oval Office desk. One of only six desks used by a President in the Oval Office, it was purchased in 1898...
    26 KB (2,946 words) - 17:17, 4 July 2024
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    by several presidents of the United States in the White House as the Oval Office desk, including the five most recent presidents. The desk was a gift...
    101 KB (9,716 words) - 23:06, 3 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Dan Lurie
    1984 made history by arm wrestling U.S. President Ronald Reagan on the Oval Office desk in the White House. Lurie was born in New York, New York, graduated...
    7 KB (685 words) - 02:35, 26 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Watergate scandal
    the break-in and that there was a voice-activated taping system in the Oval Office. Nixon's administration resisted the investigations, leading to a constitutional...
    147 KB (15,587 words) - 14:36, 5 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Brian Mosteller
    diplomat and operations executive, best known for being the Director of Oval Office Operations in the Obama administration, from 2009 to 2017. Mosteller...
    10 KB (914 words) - 02:14, 30 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for The Bronco Buster
    Historic Site, Oyster Bay, New York. An original cast resided in the Oval Office, a gift of Virginia Hatfield and Mrs. Louis Hatfield Stickney, from Jimmy...
    6 KB (696 words) - 17:02, 2 May 2024
  • Thumbnail for Pete Souza
    present for Obama's second swearing-in on Obama's first workday in the Oval Office. In May 2009, Souza began using Flickr as an official conduit for releasing...
    22 KB (2,010 words) - 15:24, 19 August 2024
  • February 1971, a sound-activated taping system was installed in the Oval Office, including in Nixon's Wilson desk, using Sony TC-800B open-reel tape...
    39 KB (3,809 words) - 20:08, 9 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Speeches of Barack Obama
    Obama delivered a live Address to the Nation by the President from the Oval Office. In the address, he declared the shooting an act of terrorism, referring...
    55 KB (5,382 words) - 01:03, 29 July 2024
  • have a pet [that lived] in the White House..." Prior to his term in the Oval Office, Jefferson bought his first mockingbird in November 1772 from a slave...
    3 KB (398 words) - 17:54, 9 July 2024
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    struggle for civil rights. The photograph was taken on May 8, 2009, in the Oval Office of the White House by Souza, who was the chief official White House photographer...
    8 KB (941 words) - 13:16, 3 September 2024
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    President William Howard Taft expanded the West Wing and created the first Oval Office, which was eventually moved and expanded. In the Executive Residence...
    104 KB (10,147 words) - 07:44, 11 September 2024
  • (2008-01-24). "The Illustrated President". Harper's Magazine. Retrieved 2008-01-26. The Oval Office: Interview of the President by Kai Diekmann of BILD...
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