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 The Oval Office
The Oval Office is the president's formal workspace, where he confers with heads of state, diplomats, his staff, and other dignitaries; where he often addresses the American public and the world on television or radio; and where he deals with the issues of the day.
The first Oval Office was built in 1909 in the center of the south side of the West Wing; in 1934 it was moved to its current location on the southeast corner, overlooking the Rose Garden.
Among the features that remain constant are the white marble mantel from the original 1909 Oval Office, the presidential seal in the ceiling, and the two flags behind the president's desk the U.S. flag and the President's flag.
www.gamepuppet.com /presidents/oval.htm   (130 words)

  
 Virtual Tour: The Oval Office
The Oval Office is the symbol of the U.S. Presidency.
Among the features that remain constant are the Presidential Seal in plaster relief on the ceiling, the white marble mantel from the original 1909 Oval Office, and the two flags behind the president’s desk – the U.S. flag and the President’s flag.
The oval rug, designed especially for the Oval Office during the Ford administration, was installed in December, 1976.
www.jimmycarterlibrary.org /tour/ovaloffice   (316 words)

  
 Oval Office
The Oval Office is the official office of the President of the United States, whether in the West Wing[?] of the White House or aboard Air Force One.
George Washington specified the room's oval shape so during meetings, he could look into everyone's eyes.
Originally, Washington wanted all the rooms in the White House oval but soon realized such a design was impractical, so just the Oval Office and the rooms directly above and below it are oval-shaped.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ov/Oval_Office.html   (93 words)

  
 Life in the Oval Office
The Oval Office was different from the office of President Theodore Roosevelt, who built the West Wing in 1902.
Taft intended to be the center of his administration, and by creating the Oval Office in the center of the West Wing, he was more involved with the day-to-day operation of his presidency than were his recent predecessors.
The Oval Office became a symbol of strength and reassurance the evening of September 11, 2001, when President George W. Bush delivered comforting words through a televised address from the Oval Office.
www.whitehouse.gov /history/life/ovaloffice.html   (426 words)

  
 Oval Office - White House Museum
The first West Wing office was Theodore Roosevelt's office, which was a conventional rectangular room in the location of the current Roosevelt Room.
He moved the Oval Office to the southeast corner for better light, a higher ceiling (there is no second story over the modern Oval Office or the Cabinet Room), and easier travel back and forth to the Residence.
Among the features that remain constant are the white marble mantel from the original 1909 Oval Office, the presidential seal in the ceiling, and the two flags behind the president's desk—the US flag and the president's flag.
www.whitehousemuseum.org /west-wing/oval-office.htm   (1082 words)

  
 Oval Office - Uncyclopedia
The Oval Office is a room used for the administration of the United States of America by the President of the United States.
After taking office, George W. Bush replaced the carpet and furnishings with 13 square kilometers of feather down, paid for by the Mothers of George W. Bush Foundation to accomodate the new president's collection of venomous spiders.
The Oval Office was originally envisioned as a large canvas gazebo by White House designer James Hoban, in which the President could entertain foreign dignitaries and important businessmen on the roof of his home.
www.uncyclopedia.org /wiki/Oval_Office   (354 words)

  
 The Oval Office - Snapshot from SearchFirm.com - Recruiter Directory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The Oval Office was established in May 1997 when Samantha Deuchar responded to a market driven need for a qualitative and unique recruitment and search service that would be significantly different from that of other service providers.
Part of the initial strategy identified for the growth of The Oval Office, was to consider a broader partnership in the medium to long term.
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 Boston.com / Boston Globe Magazine
Finally, in late June of 1994, Clinton summoned the press to the Oval Office and announced that he was replacing his lifelong friend Thomas F. ``Mack'' McLarty III, a man dubbed Mack the Nice by White House subordinates, with Leon Panetta, a former congressman and the president's budget director.
Every day, usually in the late afternoon, Clinton is given a block of time in the Oval Office, without interruption, to do whatever he pleases, whether it is to call friends or summon advisers, read, or sit at his desk and try to draw the proverbial big picture.
Perhaps no president in post-World War II America has been as successful at managing the Oval Office as Ronald Reagan in his first term, when he established an unorthodox triad of top and equal advisers who were allowed unobstructed access.
cache.boston.com /globe/magazine/6-22/ovaloffice/page2.htm   (1500 words)

  
 who Oval Office
From Harvard Square to the Oval Office: A Political Campaign Practicum (Oval Office) is an initiative of the Women and Public Policy Program that provides a select group of Harvard students with the training and support they need to ascend in the electoral process at the local, state and national levels.
The Oval Office program is designed to teach students to run for office through hands-on trainings, by growing their professional and personal network, and connecting them with women leaders who have shattered the glass ceiling in the public sector.
Upon completion of the programmatic components of the initiative, students are encouraged to remain active in the Oval Office network.
www.ksg.harvard.edu /wappp/ovaloffice/about/about.html   (437 words)

  
 Inside the Oval Office
On the other side of the office were Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, a former Rough Rider and a Republican appointed by FDR in a spirit of bipartisanship, and Robert Patterson, assistant secretary of war, both of whom flatly opposed the concept of integrating the military.
It was on the banks of the Hudson that FDR was born and bred on a diet of smothering love and attention, the pampered son of an elderly millionaire and his indomitable wife, who lived in a grand mansion overlooking vistas of sylvan beauty.
In addition to fourteen press conferences, some private Oval Office conversations and meetings were also recorded by the machine, probably absentmindedly when FDR or a staffer forgot to turn the machine off.
partners.nytimes.com /books/first/d/doyle-oval.html   (8139 words)

  
 Shenon: 911 Commission Could Subpoena Oval Office Files - Physics911   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
The chairman of the federal commission investigating the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks says that the White House is continuing to withhold several highly classified intelligence documents from the panel and that he is prepared to subpoena the documents if they are not turned over within weeks.
Kean said on Friday in his first explicit public warning to the White House that it risked a subpoena and a politically damaging courtroom showdown with the commission over access to the documents, including Oval Office intelligence reports that reached President Bush's desk in the weeks before the Sept. 11 attacks.
Kean suggested that he understood the concerns of the White House about the sensitivity of the documents at issue, saying that they were the sort of Oval Office intelligence reports that were so sensitive and highly classified that they had never been provided to Congress or to other outside investigators.
physics911.ca /Shenon:_911_Commission_Could_Subpoena_Oval_Office_Files   (1082 words)

  
 Continued Tour of the President's House
The Oval Office is where the President does the business of the country--signing bills and Executive Orders and meeting with staff, visitors, and guests.
Every President from President Hayes through President Dwight D. Eisenhower used the desk; it was first placed in the Oval Office in 1961 at the request of President John F. Kennedy.
On January 20, 1993, this historic desk was returned to the Oval Office once again, at the request of President Clinton.
clinton4.nara.gov /WH/kids/html/tour2.html   (238 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : Inside the Oval Office: The White House Tapes from FDR to Clinton: Livres en anglais: William Doyle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Amazon.fr : Inside the Oval Office: The White House Tapes from FDR to Clinton: Livres en anglais: William Doyle
Doyle combines transcripts of taped Oval Office conversations--from FDR to Bill Clinton--with his assessment of each president's executive abilities.
A delegation of civil rights leaders was filing into the Oval Office to push Franklin Roosevelt to embrace a radical, explosive concept: integrate the armed forces of the United States. Lire la première page
www.amazon.fr /Inside-Oval-Office-White-Clinton/dp/1568363168   (588 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Inside the Oval Office: The White House Tapes from FDR to Clinton: Books: William Doyle   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
A delegation of civil rights leaders was filing into the oval Office to push Franklin Roosevelt to embrace a radical,explosive, concept: integrate the armed forces of the United States.
While William Doyle's "Inside The Oval Office" is subtitled "The White House Tapes From FDR To Clinton," this is a misnomer.
Each individual who has served in the Oval Office, including the current occupant and his successors, will have certain strengths and weaknesses that may prepare them well for the challenges that confront them, or not prepare them well at all.
www.amazon.com /Inside-Oval-Office-House-Clinton/dp/1568362854   (2732 words)

  
 Oval Office: Challenge of the Presidency
Oval Office: Challenge of the Presidency purports to present a realistic view of what it is like to hold the highest office in the United States.
To begin with, an intro must be endured that is, like most intros, interesting the first time that you experience it.
Oval Office is an educational tool that is aimed at the young person who would learn about the Presidency.
www.worldvillage.com /wv/cafe/html/reviews/ovaloffice.htm   (406 words)

  
 NewYorkFirst.com: Oval Office Chair
The exclusive Gunlocke Oval Office Chair has served 9 American Presidents in the inner sanctum of the White House.
The exclusive Oval Office Chair has served Presidents Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter, as well as Attorney General Bobby Kennedy.
Very few of these chairs have ever been made, and this is a rare opportunity to acquire, not only a piece of history, not only the finest example of American craftsmanship, but the most comfortable chair of its kind in the world.
www.newyorkfirst.com /gifts/5020.html   (627 words)

  
 Inside the Oval Office
Among the features that remain constant are the white marble mantel from the original 1909 Oval Office, the presidential seal in the ceiling, and the two flags behind the president's desk--the U.S. flag and the President's flag.
The desk was made famous by a photograph of President John F. Kennedy at work while his son, John Jr., peeked out from behind the kneehole panel.
President Bush is the 43rd President of the United States and the 17th President to occupy the Oval Office.
www.whitehouse.gov /president/oval-office.html   (335 words)

  
 Inside the Oval Office
He regularly worked late into the evenings and weekends in the Oval Room, which was connected to his bedroom by a side door.
Roosevelt returned to the Oval Study at about 5:30 in the evening and then held court as mix-master at the nightly cocktail hour, where he would relax and gossip with his staff.
To control costs, the offices were furnished with abandoned furniture from terminated federal agencies.
www.insidetheovaloffice.com /excerpt4.htm   (2424 words)

  
 The American Experience | Reagan | Ronald Reagan Presidential Museum and Library/The Oval Office
TR's successor, William Howard Taft, expanded the West Wing, including in the process an Oval Office for the chief executive.
On days when he was to broadcast to the nation the Oval Office was converted into a television studio, with virtually all its furnishings removed, leaving only the "Resolute" desk--a gift to the American people from Queen Victoria.
It was his last call from the Oval Office.
www.pbs.org /wgbh/amex/reagan/sfeature/tour_oval.html   (452 words)

  
 Oval Office Chair at Hammacher Schlemmer
Franklin D. Roosevelt had two chairs, one for his office and one for his air raid shelter while John F. Kennedys chair was custom constructed with special support added for his back.
Aside from Presidents, the traditional high back chair has served executives for years in embassy suites, congressional offices and judges' chambers.
Its ergonomic design and high-quality construction are the work of The Gunlocke Company, furniture makers for over 96 years.
www.hammacher.com /publish/11609.asp?source=CJ   (294 words)

  
 The Oval Office
President," said Chief of Staff Madison, entering the Oval Office unannounced; "this just in from Secretary Paine." Sporting thin, fl-frame glasses on the tip of her nose, full of brass and business, she handed the president a folder, the words
He poured a glass for himself and a third glass of the ancient wine for the uninitiated, unwilling president, who, staring out of a sunny window in the Oval Office — his strategy for confronting the first interplanetary crisis of his presidency — blindly took the Madeira.
The president had done the smart thing when he booked the Oval Office for this afternoon’s — and, possibly, this evening’s — closed-circuit Soap Opera.
www.fortunecity.com /victorian/rothko/405/00--the_oval_office.htm   (1395 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Behind the Oval Office: Getting Reelected Against All Odds: Books: Dick Morris   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
Given the call-girl scandal that ended Dick Morris's career as Bill Clinton's chief political strategist, maybe they should have called this one "Under the Oval Office." The book is recommended because in Clinton's "Wilderness Years" of 1994 and 1995, when Newt Gingrich's Republican Revolution was in full flower, Morris undeniably had Clinton's ear.
And what he was constantly whispering in it--that the president should effect a strategy of "triangulation," in which he would disassociate himself from both the Republicans *and* the Democrats in the Congress--proved winning advice.
Part campaign chronicle, part autobiography, part political strategy primer, Behind the Oval Office is Morris's look at the period from about November 1994 through August 1996 when he worked as a consultant for Bill Clinton.
www.amazon.com /Behind-Oval-Office-Getting-Reelected/dp/1580630537   (3060 words)

  
 Oval Development
With striking views of Lake Champlain and the Green Mountains, this office space won’t last long.
Bike paths along the lake and uncrowded open spaces right outside your new offices.
The friendliness of Plattsburgh residents and quality of life here will give you a new outlook and inspire you to success in your new business location.
www.usoval.com   (88 words)

  
 Oval Office 2008
Finally, I should let you know that I have made some changes on the Democratic side to the Oval Office 2008 Rankings.
As always, the place to question my sanity on the rankings (or, if you like, anything else) is on the Oval Office 2008 Forum.
To the Globe's Joan Vennochi - never a friend to Romney - that last issue of abortion is central to understanding Romney and, in her view, his key personality flaw.
www.ovaloffice2008.com   (4807 words)

  
 The American President / Oval Office
What resulted from this union was a final script that combined the drama and struggle that surrounds the country's highest office with a very human love story.
Along with the weight of the office, Reiner and Sorkin wanted to inject "THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT" with two very specific political-public concerns that they both felt passionate about; gun control and the environment.
He was in a little private dining room talking with some of his advisors who had written the speech.
americanpresident.warnerbros.com /oval/ovabout.html   (1192 words)

  
 The Oval Office | News Room   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
As a new generation resourcing business, The Oval Office, recognised as market leaders and reputed for its innovative resourcing technologies, attracts a large amount of media attention.
We are very proud of the fact that we keep abreast of new generation thinking on issues such as talent, resourcing, remuneration etc. Please see below a collection of some of the articles published concerning The Oval Office.
Closing the Knowledge Gap, The Oval Office, 01 September 2005
www.ovaloffice.co.za /news_room.html   (129 words)

  
 February 8, 2004 - Meet the Press, online at MSNBC - MSNBC.com
Tim Russert:  And we are in the Oval Office this morning with the President of the United States.  Mr.
Russert:  And we are back in the Oval Office talking to the President of the United States.
President, last time you were on this show you said that you wanted to change the tone in the nation.
www.msnbc.msn.com /id/4179618   (4365 words)

  
 The Democratic Party
We were invited to the Oval Office for a meeting last Saturday.
The guy has recreated an exact replica of one of the most famous offices in the world and no detail has been left out - right down to the red "nuclear" phone on the desk.
The Governor told the leaders we need more Native Americans to run for office and spread their unique and traditions to State Houses across the country.
democrats.org /a/2005/10/a_meeting_in_th.php   (2331 words)

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