During his time in the Navy, John F Kennedy etched an SOS message into a coconut shell when he and his crew were marooned. As a reminder of the incident, Kennedy had the coconut encased in wood and plastic and used it as a paperweight. It sat on his desk in the Oval Office.
$SNDL in my portfolio Now and Then we will run $5-$10 , there is a bill from the Dems about to hit President’s Desk soon in the Oval Office for Federal Decriminalization of MJ reddit.com/gallery/o35ye1
Who was the right wing loon that claimed he wandered the halls of the west wing and found Donald Trump sitting at the desk in the oval office months after Biden was inaugurated?
MMW: Trump will build a replica of the Oval Office for himself at Mar-a-Lago complete with a Resolute Desk.
In Memoriam of Trump's Diet Coke Button being removed from the Oval Office desk
TIL that the desk in the Oval Office is called the Resolute Desk, named after the ship it was built out of in 1880. The HMS Resolute was found empty and adrift in packice, then salvaged by the US and gifted back to the UK, which helped narrowly avoid a war. FDR would add the front to hide his polio. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Res…
"I should keep one of these under my desk in the Oval Office!" -JFK, Probably [PTR 9KT] [OC]
TIL that FDR had a massive 750 lb globe on the floor behind his desk in the Oval Office. During WWII, he used the 4 ft wide globe to trace troop movements and plan military strategy with his advisors. blogs.loc.gov/maps/2018/0…
"I should keep one of these under my desk in the Oval Office!" -JFK, Probably [PTR 9KT] [OC]
Trump supporter Lin Wood posts on Telegram about walking around the White House and finding Trump in the Oval Office working at the presidential desk
President Kennedy taking a break at the end of the day at his Oval Office desk (1962) [966 x 1000]
Taiwan vs China: one of Trump's favorite comparisons was to point to the tip of one of his Sharpie [marker's] and say, 'this is Taiwan,' then point to [his desk in the Oval Office] and say, 'this is China.' npr.org/2020/06/17/875876…
@AP: PHOTOS: President Biden has already given the Oval Office a slight makeover, bringing a blue rug out of storage and adding a number of busts, including one of labor leader Cesar Chavez. He's using the same oak desk, though, that ex-President Trump used. https://t.co/5CUEFT3dNc mobile.twitter.com/AP/sta…
TIL the President's desk in the Oval Office of the White House was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880, & was carved from the HMS Resolute, a 19th century British Royal Navy ship that an American whaler recovered from the Arctic en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS…
TIL the iconic desk used by every POTUS in the Oval Office since 1880 was made from the timbers of a British Royal Navy ship. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS…
Michelle Obama says there is "zero chance" of running for president: "Sitting behind the desk in the Oval Office…It's just not for me" newsweek.com/michelle-oba…
Here's a picture that the President of the United States posted today in the oval office advertising beans on the The Resolute desk. imgur.com/PKTvO6K
You wake from a blackout sitting at the President's desk in the Oval Office. In front of the desk is a camera framed on you. There's a timer that will trigger the record button transmitting you live across the nation. It's counting down from twenty seconds, what do you say?
Obama provokes 'controversy' with a photo of him placing his feet on the Oval Office desk [10YA - Feb] snopes.com/fact-check/des…
“Let Them Eat Beans: from the Cuban missile crisis to bean promotion, the tell-all exposé of one desk in the Oval Office”. Coming soon to a bookstore near you.
“Let Them Eat Beans: from the Cuban missile crisis to bean promotion, the tell-all exposé of one desk in the Oval Office”. Coming soon to a bookstore near you.
I wish for a portal that connects from the inside of my toilet bowl to 2 feet above the middle of the desk in the oval office at the White House
Hillary Clinton spent an hour yesterday reading her emails at my exhibition of all 62,000 pages of them in Venice. She is pictured here at a replica of the Oval Office Resolute Desk, stacked with her emails. | I can't even... twitter.com/kg_ubu/status…
Michelle Obama says there is "zero chance" of running for president: "Sitting behind the desk in the Oval Office…It's just not for me" newsweek.com/michelle-oba…
Taiwan vs China: one of Trump's favorite comparisons was to point to the tip of one of his Sharpie [marker's] and say, 'this is Taiwan,' then point to [his desk in the Oval Office] and say, 'this is China.' npr.org/2020/06/17/875876…
Socks the Cat sitting behind President Clinton's desk in the Oval Office. January 7, 1994. [1200 X 790]
TIL that President Ronald Reagan had a stack of index cards with one-liner jokes on them. He kept it in his desk in the Oval Office, and would insert the lines into speeches to help them go over well. youtube.com/watch?v=HA7sP…
TIL As Ronald Reagan's Alzheimers worsened, he began tapping his fingers on the Oval Office desk. A reporter watching film of president realised he was taping put his home phone number and another unknown sequence. The other sequence was later learnt to be the nuclear launchcode.
Ivanka Trump posts photo of herself behind Oval Office desk apnews.com/7b1a6fe084354a…
President George H.W Bush looks outside of the Oval Office window one last time. Sighted on the desk is his letter welcoming the incoming President William J Clinton. 1993 [1024x693]
TIL: The Oval Office's current desk, a gift from Queen Victoria, was modified by FDR who had a carved front panel added to hide his leg braces. It has also been raised with a base because presidents from JFK to Reagan kept banging their knees against the underside. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Res…
[WP] After you are elected President, you discover a big red button hidden in your desk in the Oval Office. When you ask your predecessor about it, he said that it had been there for decades, but the secret of what it did died with Kennedy. After a few years, you finally give in and push the button.
To clarify, each President told their successor what the button did, but Kennedy was assassinated before he could pass the secret on. Couldn't fit that info in the title, sorry :/
TIL George H.W Bush was a big fan of baseball, he even kept his first baseman’s glove in a drawer of his desk in the Oval Office. He oiled it regularly and often used it to concentrate, putting it on to sock his hand in while he was thinking. nytimes.com/2018/12/01/ob…
TIL President William Howard Taft, doubled the size of the West Wing and built its first Oval Office. He placed the famous Roosevelt desk there where it survived a major fire in 1929 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The…
Michelle Obama says there is "zero chance" of running for president: "Sitting behind the desk in the Oval Office…It's just not for me" newsweek.com/michelle-oba…
Button that Trump used to order Diet Coke from Oval Office desk removed fox2now.com/news/politics…
The latest political Rorschach test: A picture of Ivanka Trump seated at the Oval Office desk washingtonpost.com/news/t…
