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.

Teddy Roosevelt commissioned this mahogany desk during his presidency. Taft used it after him, as did Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, Hoover, Franklin D. Roosevelt (some presidents used more than one ...

Other desks available to sitting presidents include the Theodore Roosevelt Desk, The Johnson Desk, The Hoover Desk, and The Wilson Desk. About the Author TOI World Desk.