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Herbert Hoover was the first to have a phone on his desk. Until his phone, there was a wall phone outside of the president's office that the president could use.
Thomas Jefferson used a mahogany lap desk to write his first draft of the Constitution.
Herbert Hoover was first to have a phone on his desk. The White House had a phone since about 1879 but it was out in the hall.
Herbert Hoover was the first US president to have a phone on his desk. Prior to 1929, US presidents had used a phone booth outside the office. Incidentally, the first president to have a telephone installed in the White House was Rutherford B Hayes.
'The Buck stops here' a sign to be found on the desk of President Truman. First put there 2nd October 1945
the first desk was made in the erly 1700's. 1715
President Reagan told me he had its legs lengthened because he taller than the last president to use it.
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Theodore Roosevelt
The President's Desk, aka the Resolute Desk, after the ship it's made from, is English Oak. It was a gift from the Queen of England to Pres. Rutherford B. Hayes.
The Resolute Desk is the desk in the President's Oval Office. It does not have a secret lock, but in the movie 'National Treasure 2: Book of Secrets,' there is a secret compartment in the desk as part of the plot.
When the president rejects a bill by leaving it on his desk until after Congress has ended session, it is called a pocket veto.