The couches always seem so out of place and tame to me, even in crazy red and white stripes. They should look more like this.



Though I admit that would be less comfy.

Looks fine to me.

Oval Office Fun Fact:

The cane backed side chairs are the only pieces of furniture that have been in continuous use in the OO during every administration since Herbert Hoover. They were made for the room in 1930 and have been there ever since.

Screw that noise, somebody walks in to MY oval office, I want them to cower in fear. Maybe put a red white and blue iron maiden in one corner, and DON'T TREAD ON ME in blood across a black bear skin rug. Nothing too dramatic.

If you can't induce the cower simply by being president and sitting behind the president's desk then you don't deserve the office.

And conversely if you cower because of the couch color but not the fact that you're talking to one of four or so people in the world who can single handedly destroy the world then priorities may be out of whack.

Well, you learn something new every day. I always thought the Resolute Desk was a mainstay of the OO. While it's been at the White house since the 1880's it was only during the Kennedy administration that it was moved into the OO.

Good thing too. If they take it out of there the entire premise of the second National Treasure is going to be ruined.

As if it could be made any worse than it was...

It has been in and out several times since Kennedy.

Kennedy: In
Johnson: Out
Nixon: Out
Ford: Out
Carter: In
Reagan: In
Bush I: Out
Clinton: In
Bush II: In
Obama: In

Here is a very goog page on OO history: