along with a front-and-center painting of Franklin Delano Roosevelt across from the Resolute Desk — after the previous nine presidents had selected paintings of George Washington for the office ...

Roosevelt redesigned and moved the Oval Office ... First lady Jacqueline Kennedy had the Resolute Desk restored in 1963. The Resolute Desk was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford ...

The incumbent, Herbert Hoover, was unpopular to the point that Roosevelt’s campaign strategy was simply not to do anything that would distract from that unpopularity. Roosevelt’s campaign introduced ...