He also chose to display portraits of Benjamin Franklin, President Thomas Jefferson, and Treasury Secretary Alexander Hamilton. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr., Rosa Parks, Eleanor Roosevelt, and the labor leader and civil-rights activist Cesar Chavez.

Roosevelt and opted to feature a number of progressives and activists through the room, including Robert F. Presidents almost always redesign the Oval Office upon taking office, and the call button wasn't the only thing Biden changed.īiden replaced a portrait of President Andrew Jackson with a portrait of President Franklin D. A thing of legend, the Associated Press wrote about the button in 2018, saying Trump had 'a red button on his desk in the Oval Office.' When pressed, 'a White House butler walked in with a single. Instead, photos of his desk on Biden's first day in office show two phones, a coffee cup, and a set of pens. Official White House Photo by Pete Souzaīut Biden appears to have moved the call button off his desk.

22, 2009, with the call button visible on the table. President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi have lunch in the Oval Office Dining Room of the White House, Oct.

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