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Much more than a piece of furniture, the president's Resolute Desk has echoed through history

Much more than a piece of furniture, the president's Resolute Desk has echoed through history
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Franklin D. Roosevelt toiled over paperwork there during World War II's darkest days. George W. Bush sat behind it to address the nation on 9/11. Beneath it, John F. Kennedy Jr. once crawled and peeked out from behind its front panel while his father worked above, an image so etched into American...

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