What is Resolute desk?
[[File:Barack Obama sitting at the Resolute desk 2009.jpg|right|200px|thumb|President [[Barack Obama]] sitting on the Resolute desk in 2009]] The '''''Resolute'' desk''' is a nineteenth-century desk used by several [[President of the United States|presidents]] of the [[United States]] in the [[White House]] [[Oval Office]]. It was a gift from [[Queen Victoria]] to President [[Rutherford B. Hayes]] in 1880 and was built from the [[English oak]] timbers of the British Arctic exploration ship {{HMS|Resolute|1850|6}}. [[Franklin Roosevelt]] added a door with the presidential seal to hide his leg braces.<ref>{{cite web|title=Resolute Desk|url=http://www.whitehousemuseum.org/furnishings/resolute-desk.htm|website=White House Museum|access-date=February 10, 2016}}</ref> Many presidents since Hayes have used the desk at many locations in the White House.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.whitehousemuseum.org/furnishings/resolute-desk.htm|title=Resolute Desk|publisher=The White House Museum|access-date=December 22, 2017}}</ref> The desk was removed from the White House after the [[Assassination of John F. Kennedy|1963 assassination]] of President [[John F. Kennedy]], when President [[Lyndon Johnson]] allowed it to go on a traveling exhibition with artifacts of the [[John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum|Kennedy Presidential Library]]. It was then put on display in the [[Smithsonian Institution]]. President [[Jimmy Carter]] brought the desk back to the Oval Office in 1977, where it has remained with every president since, except [[George H. W. Bush]]. ==References== {{reflist}} [[Category:Rutherford B. Hayes]] {{US-stub}}