January 20. 2009 01:10

most beautiful: George Bush (#43)

JLD

March 21. 2009 16:59

You got them all right until Bill Clinton. The picture that you used for Bill Clinton was when he had first entered office after Geroge H.W Bush (Senior Bush president #42), so that was actually George Bush Senior's carpet. Bill Clinton has a royal navy blue carpet as opposed to the light blue that Senior Bush used.

Jade

June 3. 2009 03:39

Your Eisenhower "Oval Office" photo is not the Oval Office. It's a picture of the room he used on the Second Floor of the White House as a private office (as did Truman), now called the "Yellow Oval Room," which was converted to a formal sitting room or living room in 1962, and remains so today. Mrs. Laura Bush explained that in her White House tour on television in December 2008. Also, the pictures showing Ford's, Carter's and Reagan's carpets are in fact the same carpet. Ford installed it to replace Nixon's dark blue carpet, Carter kept it throughout his term, and Reagan kept it during his first term. You can verify all of this on a fantastic web site called whitehousemuseum.org.

Russ

June 3. 2009 04:06

Sorry to be a pain, but here are some more corrections. Reagan had the sunburst carpet installed when Nancy redecorated the Oval Office for his second term, at which time the Ford carpet was finally retired. Sometime after taking office, President Bush the First replaced the sunburst carpet with the pale blue one which President Clinton used until he later replaced it with the deep blue carpet which you show above; it somewhat resembled the carpet Nixon used. However, on Inauguration Day 2001, President Bush the Second had the Reagan sunburst carpet hauled out of mothballs and installed to replace Clinton's carpet, and used it until he installed his own version of the sunburst carpet, which is still in the Oval Office today. (So your picture of "W" actually shows him with Reanan's carpet, not his Dad's.) Again, photos in whitehousemuseum.org establish this sequence of changes. The same source seems to indicate that Truman and Eisenhower used the same Oval Office carpet, and that it was still used by President Kennedy until he left for Dallas in November 1963. During that trip, the Oval Office was redecorated in time for his return, which tragically never happened. During that trip, a red carpet (with no ornamentation or design) was installed, which President Johnson used until he replaced it with the one you picture above.

Russ

July 23. 2009 16:36

Great site. However, the Ford carpet pictured above is wrong. This picture is from the Ford Presidential Museum oval office replica, which for some reason has it wrong. To add, the gift shop sells postcards which show the actual oval office as it appeared during Ford's tenure...no mediallon sunburst. The actual carpet was rather plain. Sorry, I haven't got an electronic version to share. Also, the picture above of Nixon's carpet (from a movie set) does not do the real deal justice.

C Brose