Riel Roussopoulos
PHOTOS: President Biden’s Redecorated Oval Office : President Biden Takes Office – NPR
President Biden signs his first executive action in the Oval Office on Wednesday afternoon.
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The famous Jan. 20 five-hour (more or less) White House move-out/move-in, as one presidential family leaves and another arrives, is not limited to the residence. The Oval Office also gets a redo, reflecting the new president’s taste and, often, politics.
On Wednesday, photographers got a look at President Biden’s Oval Office shortly before he arrived at the White House to begin work. Right away they noticed that the portrait of populist President Andrew Jackson, which former President Donald Trump had hanging near the Resolute desk, was gone, replaced by a portrait of Benjamin Franklin.
Biden kept the drapes and most of the furniture but exchanged a pastel rug for a dark blue one and added busts of Americans famed for their commitment to civil rights.
Here are some views of perhaps the world’s most famous workspace, redecorated to the taste of its new tenant.
Biden kept the drapes and most of the furniture, but the rug and artwork in the Oval Office have changed. Flanking the Resolute desk are busts of Abraham Lincoln (left) and Harry Truman. Above Lincoln is The Avenue in the Rain by Childe Hassam. Above Truman is a portrait of Benjamin Franklin.
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A bust of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in the Oval Office. Former President Donald Trump also displayed a bust of King.
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Alex Brandon/AP
A portrait of Franklin D. Roosevelt hangs above the Oval Office fireplace. Portraits (clockwise from top left): George Washington, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. Martin Luther King Jr.’s bust is to the left; a bust of Robert Kennedy is on the right.
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Alex Brandon/AP
A bust of civil rights leader Rosa Parks in the Oval Office.
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Alex Brandon/AP
A moon rock is displayed on a bookshelf in the Oval Office.
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Alex Brandon/AP
A bust of labor organizer and civil rights leader César Chávez sits on a table with Biden family photographs.
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Alex Brandon/AP
Looking toward the Resolute desk in the Oval Office.
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Published at Thu, 21 Jan 2021 20:02:59 +0000
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