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The Roosevelt Desk was saved, but after the fire, it was time for a change. In 1930, the Grand Rapids Furniture Manufacturer’s Association donated a brand new desk to Hoover, who had it ...
President Donald Trump has temporarily taken the 150-year-old Resolute Desk out of the Oval Office for refinishing. “A President, after election, gets a choice of 1 in 7 desks,” Trump wrote on ...
The Theodore Roosevelt Desk was crafted for the former president in 1903. It resided in the West Wing until 1929, in which it was stashed until former President Harry S. Truman took it out of ...
The desk was constructed in 1903 for Theodore Roosevelt. In 1909, it was moved into the Oval Office, where it remained until 1929, when the West Wing caught fire.
Other desks include the Roosevelt desk, which was created for President Theodore Roosevelt in 1903. It was brought into the Oval Office in 1909, where it stayed until the West Wing fire of 1929.