Theodore Roosevelt Table is a colonial-style double-pedestal table in the White House collection. Created in 1903, this is one of only six tables used by US presidents in the Oval Office.
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Designs and alerts
The table is made of mahogany. The pedestal on each side has four drawers with a thin brass pull, and a sliding shelf out. There was a cupboard door on the opposite side, but no drawers. The center of the drawer has an engraved shield with vertical stripes below the plane of the star. The table measures 90 inches by 53 ½ inches, and is 30 inches tall.
Beginning in the 1940s, each desk user signed a middle drawer interior at the end of his tenure at the office.
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History
The table was designed by architect Charles Follen McKim, who made extensive renovations to the White House during Theodore Roosevelt Administration. It was made by the furniture maker A. H. Davenport and Company, Boston, Massachusetts. Roosevelt was the first US president to use the table, placing it in the newly built West Wing Executive Office.
Roosevelt's successor, President William Howard Taft, doubled the size of the West Wing and built his first Oval Office. He placed a table at the south end of the room, in front of three windows. It has been in existence for over twenty years, and is used by President Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover.
The West Wing suffered a major fire on 24 December 1929, but the table was undamaged. The Grand Rapids Association, a Michigan furniture maker donated a new table, and President Hoover used it for the rest of his term. President Franklin D. Roosevelt destroyed the old Oval Office in 1933, and built a modern one. He used the Hoover desk in both offices. Theodore Roosevelt's table remained kept from December 1929 to 1945.
President Harry S. Truman was the first to place a table in the modern Oval Office. President Dwight Eisenhower, also used it as his Oval Office desk.
President John F. Kennedy used the Resolute table in the Oval Office. He handed Theodore Roosevelt's table to Vice President Lyndon Johnson.
President Richard Nixon uses the Oval Office as a ceremonial space. He placed a desk in an office in the Old Executive Office Building, where he preferred to work. Stephen Hess of the Brookings Institution assumes that, "Watergate recordings are made by equipment hidden in a drawer."
Baru-baru ini, meja itu digunakan oleh Wakil Presiden Richard Cheney, 2001-2009, di kantor seremonialnya di Gedung Kantor Eksekutif Eisenhower.
Replika
A replica of Theodore Roosevelt's desk is located in Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum, in Independence, Missouri, as part of a full-scale replica of the Oval Office that was furnished as during the Truman presidency.
References
External links
- Media associated with Theodore Roosevelt table in Wikimedia Commons
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