President Franklin Roosevelt at his desk in the White House on May 22 ... days of Donald Trump's current term mirror the frenzy in FDR's, though for different reasons and in different times.

The Resolute Desk had to be partially disassembled in order ... Biden was hoping to channel FDR during his term in office, seeing him as a model for how to handle crises — the Great Depression ...

FDR had a microphone hidden in a desk lamp and an on-off switch in a lower desk drawer to feed the device in the basement called a "Continuous-film Recording Machine." The intent was to record ...