Franklin Roosevelt requested the addition of a door with the presidential seal to conceal his leg braces and a safe, but it was not installed until 1945, after his death. Bush used the C&O desk in the Oval Office but kept the Resolute desk in the White House. President Jimmy Carter brought the desk back to the Oval Office in 1977, where it has remained since, save that George H. It was then put on display in the Smithsonian Institution. Kennedy, and went on a traveling exhibition with artifacts of the Kennedy Presidential Library. The desk was removed from the White House after the assassination of President John F.
Jackie Kennedy rediscovered the desk and had it brought to the Oval Office in 1961. Eisenhower used it during both radio and television broadcasts. After the reconstruction, it was placed in the Broadcast Room where Dwight D. It stayed in the President's Office and President's Study until the White House Reconstruction from 1948 to 1952. The Resolute desk was received at the White House on November 23, 1880, and shortly thereafter was moved to the second floor. Two other furniture pieces were created from the timbers of the Resolute: the Grinnell desk, made for the widow of Henry Grinnell, who spent significant sums of money trying to find Sir John Franklin and his ships and a table made for Queen Victoria's steam-powered yacht HMY Victoria and Albert. Morant, Boyd, & Blanford won this contest, and this desk was constructed shortly after. The ship was decommissioned in 1879, broken up, and a competition was held to design and build a piece of furniture from its timbers that Queen Victoria could give to the American president. Resolute was repaired and returned to the United Kingdom as a gesture of goodwill from the United States. It was found in 1855 floating in Davis Strait by George Henry, an American whaling ship. HMS Resolute was abandoned in the Arctic waterway Tariyunnuaq in 1854 while searching for Sir John Franklin and his lost expedition. The 1,300-pound (590-kilogram) desk was created by William Evenden, a skilled joiner at Chatham Dockyard in Kent, probably from a design by Morant, Boyd, & Blanford. Hayes in 1880 and was built from the oak timbers of the British Arctic exploration ship HMS Resolute. The desk was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. The Resolute desk, also known as the Hayes desk, is a nineteenth-century partners desk used by several presidents of the United States in the White House as the Oval Office desk, including the five most recent presidents. Kneehole panel designed by Lorenzo Winslow built by Rudolph Bauss
William Evenden (probably from a design by Morant, Boyd, & Blanford) President Barack Obama sitting at the Resolute desk in 2009
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