Resolute Desk
As Resolute Desk The desk in the Oval Office of the White House is called, because it is made out of that wood that was left after removal of the British ship HMS Resolute polar research in 1879. It was developed by William Evenden, a carpenter of the Royal Dockyard Chatham built. The desk was a thank you gift from the British Queen Victoria, and was passed on 23 November 1880, U.S. President Rutherford B. Hayes. A second, smaller table was presented to Henry Grinnell's widow. Queen Victoria made for himself also finished two desks from the planks of the Resolute: a, which is identical with that of the President and another for your private yacht, the HMY Victoria and Albert II This table is in the collection of the Royal Naval Museum, Portsmouth.
The HMS Resolute was part of a convoy under the command of Edward Belcher, to search for Sir John Franklin, who was in the attempt to find the Northwest Passage to Asia, lost. In 1855, American whalers the remaining polar ice stuck HMS Resolute had recovered. Then the ship after a repair of the British Crown was returned.
This piece of furniture has since been used by almost all subsequent presidents, with the exception of Lyndon B. Johnson, Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford
The Resolute Desk was from 1880 to 1902 in the President's office on the first floor of the main building, in the space now known as the " Lincoln Bedroom" and is used as a bedroom for senior guests. When the new west wing built and the presidential office was moved there in 1902, the desk in the private office of the President was on the first floor of the main building.
President Franklin D. Roosevelt had attach between the two foot sections, the front panel with the President's national emblem, in order to conceal the view of his greaves and his wheelchair. Under President Truman, the White House has been extensively renovated and the desk was placed in the source room on the ground floor of the main building, from which frequent radio and television transmissions were sent under Dwight D. Eisenhower.
Jacqueline Kennedy left the White House extensively renovate and largely back in its historic condition. She left the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office in 1961 to create in the West Wing. He became world famous by a photograph that John F. Kennedy tells the desk while his son John F. Kennedy Jr. plays including, looking out from an open door at the front.
After President Lyndon B. Johnson had opted for a different desk, was initially hired for a traveling exhibition on the Kennedy Library and then from 1966 to 1977 at the Smithsonian Institution, the Resolute Desk from 1964 to 1965. President Jimmy Carter told them to put him again in 1977 in the Oval Office. Ronald Reagan also used him, but let him put on a specially prepared base, so it was a few inches taller.
George Bush in the Oval Office preferred his usual desk he had used as a Vice President. He let the Resolute desk in his private office create the main building. Bill Clinton and George W. Bush used the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office again, as now Barack Obama.
There are numerous replicas in libraries and museums, including the Jimmy Carter Library and Museum; you can order such a well with an American company.
Trivia
- The Resolute Desk plays in the movie The Book of Secrets an important role, which is to be concealed in a hidden compartment of the table, the code for the discovery of a secret treasure.