Oval Office

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the Oval Office

1. The official office of the President of the United States, located in the West Wing of the White House.

   Synonym: Oval

   • 1998, George H. W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft, A World Transformed‎^[1], New York: Alfred A. Knopf, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 29:

     The Oval Office itself is not that large, but it has a special atmosphere about it. Even as I left the presidency, I had the same feeling of awe and reverence for the room as when I first entered it in earlier administrations.

   • 2025 February 1, Kevin Liptak, “With stiff tariffs he promised now in place, Trump opens a new trade war”, in CNN‎^[2]:

     Saturday’s tariffs are unlikely to be Trump’s last. The president said himself said in the Oval Office that additional tariffs could come by mid-February on chips, pharmaceuticals, steel, aluminum, copper, oil and gas imports – along with tariffs on the European Union – all threats that few would discount given his willingness to follow through on the North American and China tariffs on Saturday.