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Posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Thu Nov 13 16:07:57 2008, in response to Re: New Oval Office Rug, posted by GP38/R42 Chris on Tue Nov 11 23:30:18 2008. From whitehousemuseum.org:The President’s Floor Since its original construction in 1934 under Franklin Roosevelt, there have been four floors in the Oval Office. The original floor was made of cork. However, Dwight Eisenhower was an avid golfer and destroyed the floor with his golf spikes. Lyndon Johnson had the floor replaced in the mid-1960s with wood-grain linoleum. In 1982, fed up with the linoleum floor, Ronald Reagan had the floor replaced by the same contractors who had put the floor into his ranch in California with white pine and oak in a wagon-wheel pattern. In August of 2005, the floor was replaced again under George W Bush in almost exactly the same pattern as the Reagan floor. |
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