2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumDoes each president get his (her?) own chair?
Among the "pairs" of the year published by TIME magazine, there is the pair of the chair addressed by Clint Eastwood, and Obama's chair tweeted by the White House: "this seat's taken"
There is a brass label affixed to the back of the chair. It says "THE PRESIDENT," but I cannot read below it, except that I think it is a date. Is it?
Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)question everything
(47,521 posts)Wonder whether he gets to keep it once he leaves office.
former9thward
(32,068 posts)alphafemale
(18,497 posts)are replicas then. I thought the chairs went to the library. I knew the desk stayed in the oval office.
former9thward
(32,068 posts)Lyndon Johnson took the desk he used in the Senate to the White House. He then had it transferred to his Library. He sometimes would sit at the desk and surprise visitors to the Library in Austin, TX.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)It was about 30 minutes to closing time. They let me dash about and see the important bits without an admission fee.
NYC Liberal
(20,136 posts)Cabinet members can purchase their chair when the leave office -- sometimes the staff will pay for it as a gift.
I don't believe the president has to pay for his.
TeamPooka
(24,248 posts)Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)It's the Resolute desk and was removed from the Oval Office after Kennedy's assassination. Carter brought it back in '77 and it's been used by every president since except H.W. Bush, who brought in the desk he used as vice president.
question everything
(47,521 posts)Wonder what happened to Truman's "The Buck Stops Here" desk..
Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)made of the timbers of HMS Resolute (British Arctic exploration ship from the ill-fated Franklin expedition in search of the Northwest Passage):http://www.whitehousemuseum.org/furnishings/resolute-desk.htm
former9thward
(32,068 posts)The desk was made for Teddy Roosevelt and used by every president until Kennedy. Nixon used the Roosevelt desk over in the Executive office building in his 'working office'. He had the tape machine used in the Watergate tapes installed in it. I believe the Smithsonian has it now.
question everything
(47,521 posts)would carry so much history?
Someone should write a book about them.