<P> Many celebrated national figures have participated in historical events that have taken place within the Old Executive Office Building . Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, Gerald Ford, and George H.W. Bush all had offices in this building before becoming President . It has housed 16 Secretaries of the Navy, 21 Secretaries of War, and 24 Secretaries of State . Sir Winston Churchill once walked its corridors and Japanese emissaries met there with Secretary of State Cordell Hull after the bombing of Pearl Harbor . </P> <P> Presidents have occupied space in the EEOB as well . Herbert Hoover worked out of the Secretary of the Navy's office for a few months following a fire in the Oval Office on Christmas Eve 1929 . President Dwight D. Eisenhower held the first televised Presidential news conference in the building's Indian Treaty Room (Room 474) on January 19, 1955 . President Richard Nixon maintained a private "hideaway" office in room 180 of the EEOB during his presidency, from where he preferred to work, using the Oval Office only for ceremonial occasions . </P> <P> Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was the first in a succession of Vice Presidents who have had offices in the building . The first wife of a Vice President to have an office in the building was Marilyn Quayle, wife of Dan Quayle, Vice President to George H.W. Bush . </P> <P> The Old Executive Office Building was renamed the Dwight D. Eisenhower Executive Office Building when President Bill Clinton approved legislation changing the name on November 9, 1999 . President George W. Bush participated in a rededication ceremony on May 7, 2002 . </P>

Building to the left of the white house