Moving to put his own mark on the Oval Office, President Bush is putting aside a presidential desk that dates back to Rutherford B. Hayes.
Spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said Bush ordered his own desk installed in the Oval Office on June 13."He had it as vice president, and he got used to it, found it comfortable, thought it was attractive," Fitz-water sid, elaborating on Bush's new work station.
Bush's desk was one of four made to order about 1920 for the owners of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway Co.
Later, the CSX Corp., parent company of the C&O Railway, donated the desk to the White House. After his inauguration, Bush used the desk in his private residential quarters.
Fitzwater said the desk replaces the one "used there by Presidents Kennedy, Carter and Reagan." The old desk has been returned to White House storage.