Talk:Oval Office

message: Just learned a friend of mine went inside the Oval Office last year: apparently it smells like "Pine-Sol and weirdly enough, lavender potpourri, pleasant though" Who knew? :D 
Zidel333 00:27, 29 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: silly trivia

message: When it talked about "During the Cold War, window panes were outfitted with small vibrators when it was learned that the Soviets had developed a means of reading the effect of voice sound waves on glass panes.", was this Soviet development the laser microphone? If so, perhaps this can be linked to in the article. --76.167.241.125 (talk) 12:18, 11 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Window sound-reading technology

message: Might be worth mentioning that a replica or re-creation of the Oval Office has become a standard feature of recent Presidential library/museums. knoodelhed (talk) 20:39, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: replicas at museums

message: shouldnt it be put down under history that bill clinton and monica lewinsky have oral sex in this office?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.243.126.112 (talk) 23:05, 6 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: *I've added a See also section and placed a link to the Lewinsky scandal. This is the least that has to be done for the sake of accuracy and completeness. Anyone challenging this modest and clearly due link should be prepared to present a painstakingly prepared, policy-based and bulletproof reasoning for why not even a See also link belongs in the article. 78.34.149.154 (talk) 18:25, 21 January 2009 (UTC)

text: But it wasn't a single event after all, was it? And it was the most highly publicised incident that happened in the OO in recent times. I still firmly believe a See also link is more than in order considering all the facts. The question you should answer is: why should the article avoid mentioning this particular part of the history of the room? 78.34.146.122 (talk) 04:15, 22 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: You got me - yes, to be very specific, it was not a single event. However the affair is not relevant to the specific rooms and locations where the acts occurred. We might as well link to the scandal article from hallway, intern and cigar. But we wouldn't do that, because on Wikipedia we don't revel in trivia sections and irrelevant list-making. Rhobite (talk) 14:28, 24 January 2009 (UTC)

text: As this article is currently written, mentioning LS seems out of WP:PROPORTION. LS is relevant to Clinton and his presidency, not this room. Gråbergs Gråa Sång (talk) 18:25, 24 October 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: What About the Lewinsky scandal

message: Surely, in geometry an oval and an ellipse are different things. The way of constructing (drawing the line) is different, and the result is different. The oval is constructed from four sections of circles, an ellipse has no circle-section, (i.e. it's "circle"-curves are changing continuously, think by radius). Now the question is: is the Oval office geometrically oval, or elliptical? Of course I do not suggest that the name be changed.-DePiep (talk) 02:03, 10 February 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I do suggest to remove all "ellipse"-mentioning from the topic. Could also extend to the "Blue Room (White House)" in the other wing etc. The article now mentions an oval space. Especially in the text. -DePiep (talk) 23:39, 11 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Oval or ellipse?

message: Looking at this article, is it absolutely necessary to have all of these pictures of the Oval Office? As a reader, I get the hint of what the room looks like. So it is not necessary to see every nook and cranny of it. A great deal of the historical shots should and could be kept while others omitted, by shuffling them around within the text itself and below in the gallery.Yoganate79 (talk) 05:38, 20 October 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Clutter

message: The photo of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Oval Office [HorydczakOvalOfficeFDR.jpg] cannot be FDR's. The President's flag to the right behind the desk dates to October 25, 1945 or later, designed in the first year of the new Truman Administration. FDR died on April 12, 1945. The President's flag at that time of the FDR Administration was a completely different design: White, left-facing American eagle with four large stars near each corner of the flag dating from Woodrow Wilson's era in 1916.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Bobw0432 (talk • contribs) 01:00, 6 April 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: You're absolutely right. And the desk in the photo is the Theodore Roosevelt Desk, which Truman used, but FDR did not. Here's FDR's desk, now at his Presidential Museum in Hyde Park, NY:-- BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 02:40, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I replaced the photo with one from FDR's presidency, and someone else recategorized the erroneous photo. -- BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 20:39, 23 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  FDR Oval Office is NOT FDR's... 

message: Please be on the lookout for an image of the interior of the Oval Office as rebuilt by Herbert Hoover following the December 1929 fire. This would have been used by Hoover from mid-1930 to March 1933, and by FDR from March 1933 into the summer. The only images I've been able to find of Hoover in his office pre-date the fire. And all the FDR images I've seen seem to be in the current Oval Office.Thank you. -- BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 01:41, 26 July 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I found images of both at the Library of Congress's online digital photo collection. -- BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 03:46, 30 July 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Be on the lookout

message: In the table showing the various Oval Office designs through the different presidents, Trump's Oval Office is listed having four images. These images seem accurate, but there are two more that are not mentioned. In addition to a second Thomas Jefferson portrait, there is another figure who I can't identify hung to the left of Washington's portrait: 1,2 These should be added, though I would rather let someone with more knowledge of the specific portrait identities add them. --1990'sguy (talk) 23:34, 12 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: It now has a Benjamin Franklin portrait, per this photo:  --1990'sguy (talk) 20:33, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Trump Oval Office: missing portraits 

message: According to this picture (and some others), Trump recently changed the portraits in the Oval Office. Lincoln replaced Jefferson's photo, and there's a different Jackson portrait. I'm not sure if any other images were switched, though I believe that Lincoln portrait was previously in another spot in the Oval Office. --1990'sguy (talk) 22:56, 19 January 2019 (UTC)
replies: text: It now has a Benjamin Franklin portrait, per this photo:  --1990'sguy (talk) 20:33, 20 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title: Midterm renovation

message: The trump oval mentions "Clinton drapery" but the clinton drapery was a darker shade of gold that was distinct from the lighter shade of drapes used by the Trump oval. Accompanying citation does not mention that the trump oval used the clinton drapery?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 104.162.103.188 (talk) 22:54, 20 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title: Trump Oval

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message: I just stumbled on this page by the NYT that lists every artwork displayed in the oval office going back to Kennedy.. With this list it makes me wonder if the "Taft oval office" section listing every thing in each redocorstion of the office should really be moved to a spereate page as it kind of takes over the page. Perhaps redecoration of the Oval Office so that this can be about the room and all that information can be retained but move to an article specifically about it.--Found5dollar (talk) 13:27, 9 May 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Artwork 

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Until then dad who knows I will contact you again. 99.44.73.185 (talk) 22:50, 13 January 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Please forward this letter to Ronald James Clinton. From Tina Osmoore Chouan. 

message: Here's a 1951 photograph with Charles H. Woodbury's President Woodrow Wilson (1913) over the mantel in the Oval Office. I haven't been able to track down the current whereabouts of the portrait. == BoringHistoryGuy (talk) 21:14, 12 February 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''President Woodrow Wilson'' by Charles H. Woodbury 

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message: Apokrif (talk) 06:47, 25 June 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Should "president's secretary" be wikified to [[Secretary_to_the_President_of_the_United_States#Personal_secretary_to_the_president]]?