Humpday Triviola
This piece of furniture is made of timbers from an abandoned British ship that was found and returned to the Queen of England.
What is this piece of furniture and what title was it given?
Tommy
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I am not sure, but you can be sure that I will be resolute on my efforts to find out.
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#3;-)
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#4Bet Monica Lewinsky
could answer this off the top of her head!!!!
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#5;-) You Dirty Dawg!
You are also, shamelessly, on the right track. ;-)
Tommy
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#6Hummmm
You could say she was an oval office insider on a couple of counts.
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#7Answer
Yep, as you responder have eluded to it is the currently used Presidential desk known as the "Resolute Desk"
President Bush has chosen to use the Resolute desk, which was made from the timbers of H.M.S. Resolute, an abandoned British ship discovered by an American vessel and returned to the Queen of England as a token of friendship and goodwill. When the ship was retired, Queen Victoria commissioned the desk and presented to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880.
The desk has twice been modified from the original 1880 version. President Franklin D. Roosevelt requested that the kneehole be fitted with a panel carved with the Presidential coat-of-arms, but he did not live to see it installed in 1945. President Ronald Reagan requested it be raised on a 2" base to accommodate his 6'2" frame.
Every president since Hayes, except Presidents Johnson, Nixon and Ford, has used the Resolute desk. The desk was made famous by a photograph of President John F. Kennedy at work while his son, John Jr., peeked out from behind the kneehole panel.