From Taft to Obama, The Oval Office in Its Many Forms

Feb 13, 2017 7:11 PM

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Barack Obama

George W. Bush

Bill Clinton

George H. W. Bush

Ronald Reagan

Jimmy Carter

Gerald Ford

Richard Nixon

Lyndon B. Johnson

John F. Kennedy

Dwight Eisenhower

Harry Truman

Franklin Roosevelt

Warren Harding

Early photo of the Oval office during William Taft's presidency-1910s

William Howard Taft

Blank.

Poor Harding didn't even get an office in color.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

TIL/ noticed that each president changes the Oval Office. Also how is that desk always so clean? They're the fricken President!

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

For all his flaws, I liked George Dubbaya's style.

9 years ago | Likes 24 Dislikes 0

i love those striped chairs

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

No love for Bartlet?

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

I always assumed they kept the same rug, huh. Guess I've never checked out the floor the carefully.

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

FDR's curtains just scream WWII to me, being dark with the eagles

9 years ago | Likes 17 Dislikes 0

first thing i thought of too!

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

This Oval Office Intentionally Left Blank

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

It bothers me that the title says "Taft to Obama", but starts with Obama and ends with Blank.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Trump's is faaarrr more luxurious. Top of the line. He's had plenty of offices, so many offices. He's got the best office people.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

What President's portrait would you want opposite your desk? I imagine Trump has his own face.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Oval office really is egg-shaped

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

No, I pay attention to the internet trolls, Trump was the only person to change the Oval Office. They wouldn't lie to me, would they?

9 years ago | Likes 21 Dislikes 10

Who have you heard say that?

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Whatever random sites my FB dorks share crap from, talking about how Trump made everything 'gold' in the OO, as if it had never been before.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 1

I remember Obama got alot of shit for itwhen he came into office but I've never heard anything about trump

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 1

weird that anyone gets shit for that. they all redecorate when they first come in.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

It looks like you have a blank space. Could you write my name?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

I wonder if JFK ever fucked Marilyn Monroe on those couches

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Most likely had a few presidential meetings

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

These guys know nothing of Freedom themed interior decorating! /a/hfDJ7

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Title should be from Obama to Taft.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

agree. it's misleading

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Damn Carter sure was frugal.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

His was my favorite

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

President Blank was a minimalist.

9 years ago | Likes 879 Dislikes 1

I've always been a Blank Man!

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Best president

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 0

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9 years ago (deleted Oct 18, 2017 12:32 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

The spend nothing's. They were an offshoot of the know-nothings.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

But kind of messy too.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

So minimalist he only had a mononym

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Cant do this with furniture in the way.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Make America Blank Again!

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

He's not taught in schools like he ought to be either!

9 years ago | Likes 23 Dislikes 0

He shot himself. Never had kids. He was actually adopted by the Blank's because they also shot themselves, thus why they needed to adopt

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

I appreciate jokes like this that took some effort and are clever but don't get tons of praise

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

I appreciate your appreciation of such jokes. There are three of us! A tripod

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

he wrote blank checks

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

So... how long before the gold foil goes up?

9 years ago | Likes 79 Dislikes 2

And the columns to tie the cheetahs to?

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

Just before the impeachment proceedings begin.

9 years ago | Likes 26 Dislikes 7

Through all the presidents and changes to the office. That desk sits there...Resolute.

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 3

If you look close enough, the desk also changed

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

Why do they keep changing the desk ?

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

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9 years ago (deleted Apr 15, 2018 5:31 AM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

The Resolute Desk wasn't brought into the Oval Office until Kennedy, then was put in the Smithsonian after he died until Carter.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 1

Jesus Christ Nixon, those sofas are a bigger crime than covering up Watergate

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

To be fair, it was the '70s. That design was par for the course back then.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

This'd be so much better if the shots were consistent.

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 0

why no windows with Roosevelt?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Also the reason for the desk add on of the door. That way he could have photos taken at the desk and hide it.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

He didn't like people to know he was in a wheelchair

9 years ago | Likes 13 Dislikes 0

Thanks

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Where's trump

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

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9 years ago (deleted Feb 14, 2017 11:35 PM) | Likes 0 Dislikes 0

Not true. Left Trump out b/c he has only been in office for a month, so I figured he has not decorated Office completely to his liking yet

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 2

You know how I know you're a cunt? Lol

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 1

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-trump-has-changed-the-oval-office-so-far/ I think maybe he isn't done decorating, so no official photos?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

By President blank do you mean William Henry Harrison? The guy never got the chance to decorate his office. That's why you don't show off.

9 years ago | Likes 91 Dislikes 2

Tippecanoe and Tyler too

9 years ago | Likes 18 Dislikes 0

I find it extremely ironic that the indians lost the battle of tippecanoe

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

i guess you could say their canoes were ... tipped.

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Nerd!

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

I'm related to him! It's because of him I get a 5+ stat to cold invulnerability

9 years ago | Likes 4 Dislikes 0

Wouldn't that be the other way around?

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Nah. We Harrisons get immunity from bad experiences. Coincidentally, I hardly take damage from bullets, as well as large industrial hammers.

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Interesting who did and did not choose the Resolute Desk.

9 years ago | Likes 65 Dislikes 1

That desk is fucking gorgeous.

9 years ago | Likes 10 Dislikes 0

I kept looking to see who the first president was to put his desk in front of the windows

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 7

I kept looking to see who the first president was to put his desk in front of the windows

9 years ago | Likes 8 Dislikes 1

The Resolute desk has such an interesting story that seems to not be well known.

9 years ago | Likes 7 Dislikes 1

I kept looking to see who the first president was to put his desk in front of the windows

9 years ago | Likes 6 Dislikes 7

Johnson kept the same desk he used as Senate majority leader, and Bush Sr. used the same desk he did as vice president.

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 0

some of them probably saw National Treasure 2

9 years ago | Likes 30 Dislikes 0

But where will they keep the book of secrets?

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

Looks at own desk with pity. What a sad piece of shit.

9 years ago | Likes 5 Dislikes 0

Mine is made of plastic :|

9 years ago | Likes 1 Dislikes 0

fuckin' Ikea, you call this melamine garbage a desk?

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

just spent five minutes thinking about how I'd decorate an office I'd never occupy

9 years ago | Likes 3 Dislikes 0

Same.

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

Such lovely hardwood and they cover it up almost entirely with carpets.

9 years ago | Likes 307 Dislikes 0

Imagine all the angry stomping that happens in that room. The pacing. The number of tripods set down. That wood would get ruined soon.

9 years ago | Likes 56 Dislikes 0

fuckin' house flippers

9 years ago | Likes 2 Dislikes 0

All the furniture & carpets are fire retardant in case the Canadians come round to burn the place again. It's why we can't have nice things

9 years ago | Likes 9 Dislikes 0

thats why the hardwood is still so nice

9 years ago | Likes 69 Dislikes 0

Carpets donated by Russia, ever since 1952. They help the acoustics.

9 years ago | Likes 164 Dislikes 2

Bugs. Bugs everywhere.

9 years ago | Likes 20 Dislikes 1

In Soviet Russia, carpets (re)lay you.

9 years ago | Likes 28 Dislikes 1

Tapestries, by Putin.

9 years ago | Likes 11 Dislikes 1