The Oval Office Through the Years | (1909 - 2021) Oval Office Decor Evolution
The Oval Office evolves through the years as it is occupied by 20 different Presidents of the United States.
(Video bugged and didn’t show Bill Clinton)
The Oval Office has been the main office for the president since President William Howard Taft began working in it in October 1909. After his inauguration, President Taft held a competition to select an architect to enlarge and make permanent the West Wing's "temporary" Executive office built during Theodore Roosevelt's administration. Taft ordered a southward extension of the existing structure. The winning architect was Nathan C. Wyeth of Washington, D.C. who designed the expansion and a new office for the President. Wyeth modeled the new president's office after the White House's most famous oval-shaped room—the Blue Room.
Although the Oval Office was created out of the expansion of the "West Wing" in 1909, the room's distinctive shape was inspired by the Blue Room and its form may be traced to a formal social greeting that was meant by President Washington as a symbolic means of dramatizing the office of the Presidency.
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