HISTORY OF THE RESOLUTE DESK FROM WIKIPEDIA:
The Resolute desk is a large, nineteenth-century partners' desk often chosen by presidents of the United States for use in the White House Oval Office as the Oval Office desk.
It was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880 and was built from the timbers of the British Arctic Exploration ship Resolute.
Franklin Roosevelt had a small door built for the gap to prevent people from seeing his wheelchair. Many presidents since Hayes have used the desk at various locations in the White House, but it was Jackie Kennedy who first brought the desk into the Oval Office in 1961 for President John F. Kennedy.
It was removed from the White House only once, after the assassination of President Kennedy in 1963, when President Johnson allowed the desk to go on a traveling exhibition with the Kennedy Presidential Library. After this it was on display in the Smithsonian Institution. President Jimmy Carter brought the desk back to the Oval Office, where Presidents Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and George W. Bush used it. It is currently in use by President Barack Obama.
Biden is also a P.O.S. for not having the stones to TELL Obama to take his frigging foot off the furniture. Guess that's considered ok when you live in a camel dung hut but NOT in the White House.
ReplyDeleteHmmm - maybe the didn't have furniture in Indonesia where he allegedly grew up - and he probably spent more time on the beach in Hawaii than he did indoors so 'perhaps' he never learned no proper manners regarding heirloom furniture. Nah, he's just totally inconsiderate.
ReplyDeleteIt's a desk you predudice piece of crap. He is not the first President to put his foot on the Res. Desk! Just the first Black one Hmmm I think we found the problem. Just go to your hate group meeting and spew your crap to them. He is Black live with it !
ReplyDeleteBush & Ford did it, too - where's your blog post and outrage about that?
ReplyDeleteSign your name, coward, and then we will talk! And notice the comment above......
DeleteBush and Ford did the same thing. but they aren't black, that's why you didn't notice or make a public rant about them "disrespecting"a PIECE OF FURNITURE
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