Feb 2, 2009: Resolute Desk

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Originally Posted by glatt

If you look closely at the bottom of the Resolute desk, you can see that they added about 3 inches to it to raise it up higher. During the Kennedy years, that spacer was primitive looking and all black. Today it closely matches the rest of the desk in color. (See the actual IOTD above.)

I read that while looking for the supposed missing third desk. It was Ronald Reagan who raised it three inches. When he brought in his own chair the desk would hit his knees so he had it raised. It has been raised ever since.