Talk:List of Oval Office desks

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A fact from List of Oval Office desks appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 20 October 2010 (check views). The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that the Resolute Desk (pictured) is one of only five desks ever used in the Oval Office?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2010/October.

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Roosevelt Desk

There are problems here. The Taft Oval Office suffered a major fire on December 24, 1929, and had to be rebuilt by Herbert Hoover. Did the Theodore Roosevelt Desk survive the fire?
Also, the two photos at right show different desks. Which is the Theodore Roosevelt Desk?
-- BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 23:00, 22 July 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, the Theodore Roosevelt desk survived the 1929 fire. According to William Seale (The President's House 1986), Hoover's sons moved the desk before the fire reached the Oval Office. A group of Grand Rapids, Michigan furniture-makers donated a new desk, which Hoover used for the rest of his term, and FDR used as his Oval Office desk. -- BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 14:23, 2 August 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Trump

As editing has begun with a new president i just thought i would attempt to build concensus here. While trump has done a quick redecoration of the office, it seems the new rug and curtians are merely the ones george w bush used. I dont think we can say without a doubt that trump will keep the resolute desk, even though he is currently using it less than 24 hours into his presidency. My suggestion is to leave trump listed as using the resolute for now, but if he chooses a new desk at some point, we will switch him over to that desk in the list without a caveat that he used the resolute for x number of days. Found5dollar (talk) 03:37, 21 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Shouldn't we list Theodore Roosevelt on the table...

...using the desk named after him? He used it from 1903 to 1909. Problem is that the table lists 'term of office', and TR started using the desk a couple of years into his unexpected term. Solution? Randy Kryn 16:02, 21 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

I guess the problem is the Oval Office wasn't created until after Roosevelt's term, so TR's use of his desk wouldn't fit the page name. I pity the poor fool (referring, sadly, to myself). Randy Kryn 16:07, 21 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

FDR

So did FDR use the Resolute desk at all? The Resolute desk article states he was the one who had the door added to the front, but this article says he used the Hoover desk...74.137.104.182 (talk) 22:41, 27 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]