“Finally, the desk, where we’ll have our picture taken in front of—is nine other presidents used it. This was given to us by Queen Victoria in the 1870s, I think it was. President Roosevelt put the door in so people would not know he was in a wheelchair. John Kennedy put his head out the door.”—Showing German newspaper reporter Kai Diekmann the Oval Office, Washington, D.C., May 5, 2006
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