<Tr> <Th> Width </Th> <Td> 6 ft (180 cm) </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Depth </Th> <Td> 4 ft (120 cm) </Td> </Tr> <P> The Resolute desk is a large, nineteenth - century partners' desk used by seven presidents of the United States in the White House Oval Office as the Oval Office desk . It was a gift from Queen Victoria to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880 and was built from the English oak timbers of the British Arctic exploration ship HMS Resolute. Franklin Roosevelt requested the addition of a door with the presidential seal to conceal his leg braces . Many presidents since Hayes, except Johnson, Nixon, and Ford, have used the desk at various locations in the White House . </P> <P> The desk was removed from the White House only once, after the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, when President Lyndon Johnson allowed it to go on a traveling exhibition with the Kennedy Presidential Library . After this it was on display in the Smithsonian Institution . </P>

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