United States Presidential Oval Offices – Taft through Obama
January 20th, 2009 by Stephen
So I was a little bored over the weekend when I began wondering what the oval office looked like for each President. Given that today is inauguration day, I thought it would be most appropriate to post.
Little did I know that the Oval Office was created in 1909 during William H. Taft’s presidency when the West Wing was added to the White House. Overall, most Presidents’ seem to keep the same basic configuration, while fiddling with the different decor and color schemes. By far the most different was the red carpet of John F. Kennedy. The other odd thing I noticed was that some desks (like Nixon’s) have extremely large amounts of square-footage, possibly a precursor to today’s multiple monitor computer desktops.
IMAGE CREDIT: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17.
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January 20th, 2009 at 7:56 am
It is not IT
)) but OK, interesting
January 20th, 2009 at 8:00 am
Yeah, it’s definitely not our typical Office Snapshots office post, but I thought that given the day, it would still be appropriate
January 20th, 2009 at 9:54 am
You are missing my favorite. Josiah Bartlet from The West Wing.
January 20th, 2009 at 10:05 am
Here are a couple other interesting observations.
#1 – You can tell who was right/left handed by where the phone is located.
#2 – What’s with the crystal awards on Clinton’s desk? You are the PRESIDENT…do you really need something from a trophy shop on your desk?
#3 – The Resolute Desk is much smaller than I thought. Truman’s was huge!
January 20th, 2009 at 7:33 pm
历届白宫办公室…
Office Snapshots是一个很有意思的BLOG，专门搜集人家办公室的照片。
昨天20号，是奥巴马上任的上任的第一天，Office Snapshots搜集了17张白宫的办公室照片。
我觉得Clinton那张不错，你喜欢哪一张…..
January 22nd, 2009 at 10:23 am
Nixon looks tiny behind his desk! Also fun to see Cheney in the pic with HW.
January 31st, 2009 at 1:21 pm
Stephen, thnx! Great post! in fovourites and post-quote’d .. will be