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    "ocrText": "- 11 *\nMR. CRONKITE: Mr. President, if I remember correctly, isn't this the desk\nthat President Wilson used all through Vlorld War I -- he fought the war across\nthis desk virtually?\nPRESIDENT: In his study, upstairs -- yes - this desk was in the study upstairs\nbut the desk that's in the Presidential Office is one that was put there in 19\n--\nI think in 1902 by Theodore Roosevelt. But this desk was in the President's\nStudy in the White House.\nMR. CRONKITE: Those drawers on the corners, I have been told - I noticed out\nthere that Mrs. Wilson presumably dropped the secret papers in and\nPRESIDENT: Those doors on each side and behind those doors are drawers on both\nsides of the desk.\nMR. CRONKT.TE: Well, it is practically a secret thing.\nPRESIDENT: Yes.\nMR. CRONKITE: And wasn't this the desk too, that we used to see in the pictures\nwith al of the Democratic geegaws across in President Roosevelt's Administra-\ntion? Wasn't it\nPRESIDENT: No, no, no, this isn't the one; that one is in Hyde Park today --\nthat one is in Hyde Park.\nMR. CRONKITE: What about this interesting old grill here, Mr. President, that\ncame out of the original White House, didn't it? Isn't that part of the old\nkitchen?\nPRESIDENT: That's right, that's part of the old kitchen and we hope to be able\nto obtain the old cooking utensils that went with these two fireplaces.\nMR. CRONKITE: That would make an interesting spread, indeed. We've got the\nsame sort of a fireplace at the other end of the\nPRESIDENT: Yes, it's the same\nMR. CRONKITE:\ndeep old kitchen room. This was the basement of the White\nHouse, a.s I understand it, until Theodore Roosevelt's renovation and he dug an\nexcavation and a new basement and made this part of the -- an integral part\nof the working quarters of the White House.\nPRESIDENT: No, there wasn't any basement under this house at all until we put\nit there. There was no basement until we put it there.\nMR. CRONKITE: Well, I didn't know that. This is the China Room\nPRESIDENT: This is the China Room.\nMR. CRONKITE: Right across the hall next to the Diplomatic Reception Room.\nPRESIDENT: That's right.\nMR. CRONKITE: This paneling, Mr. President, is very interesting - original\npine, is it?\nProservation Copy"
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