Franklin D. Roosevelt had a modesty panel installed onto the resolute desk to hide his physical handicaps. On the desk panel carving, the eagle faces the arrows.
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President Hayes was first to use the presidential coat of arms stationary. He changed the eagle’s head to face the arrows for the first time.
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Arctic ship HMS Resolute was trapped in the ice & abandoned in 1854. Recovered by an American whaler ship & returned to Queen Victoria in 1856. The British government ordered three desks to be made from the timbers of the ship. One desk was given to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880 as a gesture of thanks for the rescue and return of Resolute.
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