Sentence examples for resolute desk from inspiring English sources

The next morning, he's sitting for the first time in his chair at the Resolute Desk.

He and Vice-President Joe Biden stood in front of the Resolute Desk.

The President was sitting behind his desk — the Resolute desk, a gift from Queen Victoria to Rutherford B. Hayes — and he was reading from a folder marked "Secret".

How is that wonderful family of yours?" The president led Joao into the Oval Office and stood with him in front of the Resolute desk.

In Stanton's photo of the encounter, Vidal sits grinning behind the Resolute desk, the President and principal flanking him like wings.

That piece of furniture, known as the Resolute Desk, has been used by all but three of the past twenty-five Presincludingncluding Obama.

"The one approach I will not accept is inaction," Mr. Obama said from behind the presidential desk named Resolute with the traditional flags in the background.

It is a subtle redo: The desk is still Resolute, a gift from Queen Victoria to Rutherford B. Hayes, built from pieces of a salvaged Arctic discovery vessel.

Mr. Obama reupholstered Mr. Bush's two mahogany chairs in caramel-colored leather and kept the desk, called the Resolute, that every chief executive since President Rutherford B. Hayes — except Presidents Johnson, Nixon and Ford — has used, though some used it in the White House residence.

It was a sister ship to the H.M.S. Resolute, whose timbers were made into an ornate desk that Queen Victoria gave to the White House.

It was fitting that he worked at a desk carved from a British warship, the H.M.S. Resolute -- clarity of purpose being the admirable flip side to his at times infuriating certitude.