The Oval Office may well be the most iconic executive ... Howard Taft in 1909 has sat behind the desk and looked out the windows facing the Washington Monument. Deals have been reached, scandals ...

Smith, the Obamas’ decorator, who used a traditional barn-red wool for President Barack Obama’s Oval Office windows, harking back to a red curtain color he saw in portraits of George ...

Oval Office decorations can also be a source of political sniping. Under President Donald Trump's administration, White House officials chose to anonymously bash Barack Obama by alleging that he'd ...

and the leadership of the free world," Obama wrote on Facebook on Thursday. And shortly after 9 a.m., reporters gathered in the Rose Garden could see him through the Oval Office windows ...

President Barack Obama's staffers pulled off a seasonal prank when they repositioned some artificial snowman decorations to ominously peer into the windows of the Oval Office. Official White House ...

when Jimmy Carter returned the Resolute Desk to the Oval Office. Most recently, the Resolute Desk was used by Democratic former presidents Biden between 2021 and 2025 and Obama between 2009 and 2017.