Roosevelt and opted to feature a number of progressives and activists through the room, including Robert F. It's unclear where the call button went.Presidents almost always redesign the Oval Office upon taking office, and the call button wasn't the only thing Biden changed.Biden replaced a portrait of President Andrew Jackson with a portrait of President Franklin D.

rFzhPaHYjk- Tom Newton Dunn January 21, 2021īut Biden appears to have moved the call button off his desk.Instead, photos of his desk on Biden's first day in office show two phones, a coffee cup, and a set of pens. Eventually Trump pressed it, and a butler swiftly brought in a Diet Coke on a silver platter. When and I interviewed Donald Trump in 2019, we became fascinated by what the little red button did.

President Biden has removed the Diet Coke button. He showed reporters that with a push of a red button, a White House butler would bring him a glass of soda in the Oval Office.In the years after, Trump was pictured regularly with the rectangular wooden box on the desk, right next to his phones.The call button is not new and isn't used only for soda - President Barack Obama was once pictured with it on a table during a lunch with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Trump first showed off the wooden call box in 2017 interviews with The Associated Press and the Financial Times.

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