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C&O desk
The C&O desk is one of only six desks ever used by a President of the United States in the Oval Office. Of all the Oval Office desks this one was used there only by George H. W. Bush. The C&O desk, created around 1920, is one of four desks built for the owners of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway. It was later donated to the White House by Chesapeake and Ohio's successor, CSX Transportation. ==Design and markings==
The C&O desk, constructed around 1920, is a walnut〔Parmet, Herbert S. (George Bush: the life of a Lone Star Yankee ). p.365. Transaction Publishers, 2001. Accessed December 24, 2011.〕 reproduction of an eighteenth-century English Georgian double pedestal desk (also known as a partners desk) with drawers located on both sides of each pedestal.〔Hess, Stephen, (What Now? The Oval Office ). Brookings Institution. January 08, 2009. Accessed December 22, 2011〕
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