32 Facts About Resolute desk

Resolute desk, known as the Hayes desk, is a nineteenth-century partners desk used by several presidents of the United States in the White House as the Oval Office desk, including the five most recent presidents.

Resolute desk was repaired and returned to the United Kingdom as a gesture of goodwill from the United States.

Resolute desk was received at the White House on November 23,1880, and shortly thereafter was moved to the second floor.

The desk was removed from the White House after the assassination of President John F Kennedy, and went on a traveling exhibition with artifacts of the Kennedy Presidential Library.

Resolute desk was discovered and extricated in September 1855, in Latitude 67º N by Captain Buddington of the United States Whaler 'George Henry'.

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The Resolute desk is decorated with carved moldings and carved floral swag designs.

However, the carving on the Resolute desk was not changed, making the carving on the Resolute desk no longer match the official design.

The Resolute desk was constructed expressly as an arctic vessel with a bow covered in iron to cut through ice.

Buddington claimed the right to salvage for HMS Resolute desk, and sailed it to New London, Connecticut, arriving on Christmas Eve 1855.

Wealthy American philanthropist Henry Grinnell, who had financed an earlier expedition to find Franklin's lost ships to no avail, suggested to the US government that the Resolute desk should be refit and sent back to England as a token of goodwill.

On September 12,1856, the Resolute desk was towed to the Brooklyn Navy Yard, where it underwent a complete refit, repaint, and restock.

Resolute desk continued serving in the Royal Navy for twenty-three years as a supply vessel, but never again left British waters.

Resolute desk was founded by George Morant and had supplied work for Thomas Lawrence, Robert Peel, and the Dukes of Sussex, Cambridge, and Sutherland.

Resolute desk exhibited at the Great Exhibition, the Exhibition of the Industry of All Nations, and the 1862 International Exhibition.

The one that is known as the Resolute desk was announced as "recently manufactured" on November 18,1880.

Resolute desk was buried at Chatham Cemetery, but his grave can no longer be found.

The crate containing the Resolute desk arrived in New York on November 15,1880, by steamship and arrived at the White House on November 23.

Roosevelt kept the Resolute desk covered in personal mementos and, when entertaining visitors, would show off his bartending skills, which he was proud of, by personally mixing drinks atop the Resolute desk.

The Theodore Roosevelt desk was used briefly by Kennedy in the presidential office, but Jacqueline Kennedy had it replaced by the Resolute.

Resolute desk discovered that four Cezanne paintings originally intended for the White House were instead on display in the National Gallery of Art; she found 100-year-old busts in a downstairs men's bathroom; and after moving aside electrical equipment in the Broadcast Room, she uncovered the Resolute desk.

When Jacqueline Kennedy discovered the Resolute desk, it was covered and obscured by green baize attached to it with Scotch Tape.

The Resolute desk was being used to prop up camera equipment when films were shown in the Broadcast Room, and the baize was apparently there to protect it from the equipment.

Resolute desk finally did begin using the room on November 26,1963, and had the Resolute desk replaced with the Johnson desk, the desk that he had used throughout his time in the Senate and as vice president.

On February 12,1964, the Resolute desk was transferred, on loan, to the Smithsonian Institution.

The Resolute desk was originally displayed as an exhibit in its own right at the National Museum of History and Technology, now the National Museum of American History, with the independent exhibit opening on November 16,1967, but it was later displayed as part of one of the five major United States Bicentennial exhibits the museum curated.

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The "We the People" exhibition, which the Resolute desk was displayed in, opened on June 4,1975, and focused on the American people and American government.

Also designed and made by William Evenden in 1880, the Resolute desk has a leather-covered surface, fluted legs, and a leather footrest.

The Resolute desk has an upper cabinet and two cupboards covered by paneled doors.

The Resolute desk's bell was given to President Lyndon Johnson by UK Prime Minister Harold Wilson in 1965.

The replica Resolute desk took almost a full year to complete and is still found at the Kennedy Library.

Several private houses and replica Oval Offices display copies of the Resolute desk, including the Ron Wade House in Longview, Texas a 10,000-square-foot home in Kirtland Hills, Ohio, and Norton Manor, the Potomac, Maryland home of Frank Islam.

Replica of the Resolute desk was on display during the 58th Venice Biennale as a part of Kenneth Goldsmith's exhibition HILLARY: The Hillary Clinton Emails.