“The moment of the evening … came when Trump was asked if outgoing President Joe Biden had left the traditional letter of advice for his successor in the Resolute Desk. Trump opened a drawer and pulled the historic letter out, apparently for the first time, the number “47” visible in Biden’s handwriting upon the envelope. The president suggested he might even open and read the letter right there, before the cameras. In the end, he smiled and put it back in the drawer … Even Trump has his limits.”
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The Resolute Desk, made by William Evenden, Royal Naval Dockyard at Chatham, England, was constructed from white oak and mahogany timbers taken from the HMS Resolute and was presented to President Rutherford Hayes by Queen Victoria in 1880. In 1852, the Resolute was part of a British arctic expedition to search for Sir John Franklin, who disappeared while trying to discover the Northwest Passage. The Resolute had been abandoned after being trapped in ice. The American whaler George Henry recovered the ship in 1855 and Congress appropriated the funds to refit it and send it to England as a gift in friendship to Queen Victoria. The Queen reaffirmed that friendship with the construction of this desk after the Resolute was decommissioned.
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