The Oval Office is a place of high-stakes meetings among people with strongly held beliefs, so it’s not surprising that ...

Putin is close to reversing the Cold War’s outcome, but not because of Russian power. The Trump administration is simply ...

One of the most legendary Oval Office confrontations took place in 1947, when President Harry Truman gathered aides to debate whether the United States should recognize Israel. Secretary of State ...

President Donald Trump temporarily removes the 150-year-old Resolute Desk from the Oval Office to be refinished.

The system America took 80 years to assemble proved surprisingly fragile in the face of Trump’s assault, a revolution in how ...

When President Harry S. Truman first used the desk at the White House, it was brought into the Oval Office by President John F. Kennedy and became an iconic backdrop as his son, John F.

I don’t say this often, but let’s give Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt. During Trump’s instantly infamous Oval Office meeting with Volodymyr Zelenskyy last week, the Ukrainian president was ...

It was brought into the Oval Office in 1909, where it stayed until the West Wing fire of 1929. Years later, Harry Truman brought this furnishing out of storage so that it could be used again.