President's desk

President's desk

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 and was carved from the HMS Resolute, a 19th century British Royal Navy ship that an American whaler recovered from the Arctic.

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