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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsDo You Know Who First Placed The Resolute Desk In The Oval Office?
The Resolute desk was received at the White House on November 23, 1880, and shortly thereafter was moved to the second floor. It stayed in the President's Office and President's Study until the White House Reconstruction from 1948 to 1952. After the reconstruction, it was placed in the Broadcast Room where Dwight D. Eisenhower used it during both radio and television broadcasts. Jackie Kennedy rediscovered the desk and had it brought to the Oval Office in 1961. The desk was removed from the White House after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and went on a traveling exhibition with artifacts of the Kennedy Presidential Library. It was then put on display in the Smithsonian Institution.
President Jimmy Carter brought the desk back to the Oval Office in 1977, where it has remained since, save that George H. W. Bush used the C&O desk in the Oval Office but kept the Resolute desk in the White House.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resolute_desk
Captain Zero
(6,805 posts)But I won't say anymore. Your post will end up in creative speculation.
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(1,166 posts)If you can't post it here, would you mind making an OP in Creative Speculation? (Or, hell, just send me a DM with your theory.) Thanks so much!
Roland99
(53,342 posts)OneGrassRoot
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(25,541 posts)LetMyPeopleVote
(145,168 posts)This is great history on this desk
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(35,454 posts)UTUSN
(70,686 posts)VGNonly
(7,488 posts)I know all about the history of the HMS Resolute before it's timbers were converted into the desk. Very interesting story.
Me.
(35,454 posts)and I was delighted to see that Jackie Kennedy was responsible for bringing it into the Oval. She did a lot of things people are unaware of...the Temple of Dendur in the Met Museum (interesting story there too) and saving Grand Central Station for starters.