Doro Bush Koch, one of George Bush's children, suggests Bush's choice to use his vice presidential desk may have been due to a perceived tradition of vice presidents that ascend to the presidency using their vice presidential desks. Bush who elected to go with the C&O desk, the desk he had used as vice president. The desk has since been used in that room by every president other than George H. Jimmy Carter returned the Resolute desk to the Oval Office in 1977. When Richard Nixon became president he brought the Wilson desk, which he had used as vice president, and it remained in the Oval Office when Gerald Ford took over after Nixon's resignation. When Johnson left office the desk he used was sent to his presidential library. Johnson elected to use the desk he had used as a senator and as vice president. Upon Kennedy's assassination in 1963, the Resolute desk was sent on a national tour, and his successor Lyndon B. Kennedy's wife, thought the more ornately carved Resolute desk should be the most visible presidential desk. Kennedy briefly used the Theodore Roosevelt desk before it was switched out in 1961 for the Resolute desk.
playing in the kneehole of the Resolute desk Truman and subsequently used by Dwight Eisenhower. After Roosevelt died in office, the Hoover desk was given to his wife, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the Theodore Roosevelt desk was brought back to the newly rebuilt Oval Office in 1945 by then president Harry S.
Roosevelt had the West Wing expanded during his time in office including the construction of a new Oval Office. This new desk was used for the rest of Hoover's term in office and by Franklin D. With the repair, Hoover was gifted a suite of 17 furniture pieces including a new desk, known as the Hoover desk, by an association of Grand Rapids, Michigan furniture-makers.
Hoover reconstructed the part of the White House affected, including the Oval Office, reopening them in 1930. This desk remained in use by subsequent presidents until, on December 24, 1929, a fire severely damaged the West Wing during President Herbert Hoover's administration. Wyeth who chose the Charles Follen McKim designed Theodore Roosevelt desk, which was first used by Theodore Roosevelt in the previous executive office, for the new office space. The first Oval Office was constructed as part of the expansion of the West Wing to the White House in 1909 under president William Howard Taft. History The Theodore Roosevelt desk in William Howard Taft's new Oval Office in 1909 Ford Presidential Library, Jimmy Carter wrote about choosing a desk as his first official presidential decision in his memoir Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President, and in an interview with Chris Wallace, Donald Trump described that there are seven desks to choose from and that he chose the Resolute desk due to its history and beauty. A 1974 memo explaining the desk options Gerald Ford could choose from is held at the Gerald R. A few presidents have made public through interviews or papers in their presidential libraries how their choice was made. The process for choosing a desk is not standardized and different presidents chose desks for different reasons. Other past presidents have used the Hoover desk, the Johnson desk, and the Wilson desk. Bush used the C&O desk for his one term, making it the shortest-serving desk to date. presidents since 1977 with the exception of George H. Of the six desks that have occupied the Oval Office, the Resolute has spent the longest time in the room, having been used by eight presidents. The desk currently in use by Joe Biden is the Resolute desk. The first desk used in the Oval Office was the Theodore Roosevelt desk. Eisenhower, used the desk in this room only for these ceremonial purposes, while others, including Richard Nixon used it as their main workspace.
It is widely used ceremonially for photo opportunities and press announcements. Each president uses the Oval Office, and the desk in it, differently. The desk usually sits in front of the south wall of the Oval Office, which is composed of three large windows, has an executive chair behind, and has chairs for advisors placed to either side or in front. 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. President Barack Obama and President-Elect Donald Trump sit in the Oval Office with the Resolute desk, the desk they both used, in the background.
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