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American Objects The Resolute Desk
FILE - President John F. Kennedy gestures from behind a richly carved desk, made from the timbers of a British sailing ship, as he talks, Feb. 6, 1961 in his White House office in Washington with Mongi Slim, right, Tunisian Ambassador to the U.S., and G. Mennen Williams, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs.
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