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[[Image:WH2treaty.png|thumb|Floor plan of the White House second floor showing location of the Treaty Room.]]
[[Image:TreatyRoomMirrror.jpg|thumb|West wall of the Treaty Room during the [[Bill Clinton|Clinton]] administration showing the overmantel mirror.]]
[[File:Treaty Room in 1992 with the Resolute desk.jpg|thumb|The [[Resolute desk|''Resolute'' desk]] in the Treaty Room in 1992 during the term of [[George H. W. Bush]]]]
[[Image:WHTreatyJFK.jpg|thumb|The Treaty Room as decorated by [[Stéphane Boudin]] during the administration of [[John F. Kennedy]] The printed borders reproduce the wallpaper in the room where Lincoln died at the [[Petersen House]].]]
The '''Treaty Room''' is located on the second floor of the [[White House]], the [[official residence]] of the [[president of the United States]]. The room is a part of the first family's private apartments and is used as a study by the president.

==History==
Before construction of the [[West Wing]] of the White House, working offices were located on the east side of the second floor. The Treaty Room has been used as a waiting room, a [[United States Cabinet|cabinet]] room, and the president's office.  President [[Andrew Johnson]] used the room for his cabinet meetings. [[Ulysses S. Grant]] continued this use and acquired a large [[Renaissance Revival]] style table to be used by his cabinet.  The table remained in the room for many years, and President [[William McKinley]] oversaw the signing of the peace treaty with Spain which concluded the [[Spanish–American War]] on it on August 12, 1898.

Old engravings, photographs and [[stereograph]]s show a succession of ornate printed wall and ceiling papers, highly figured [[axminster]] carpets, and ornate gas lighting fixtures. During the administration of [[Theodore Roosevelt]] this room was greatly simplified as a part of an overall refurbishment of the house directed by [[Charles Follen McKim]]. [[Victorian decorative arts|Victorian decoration]] was removed, and the underlying wood floor was exposed. Low bookcases were constructed, and the room began use as the president's in-residence study.

During the administration of [[Herbert Hoover]], the room underwent an extensive redecorating project by First Lady [[Lou Henry Hoover]] to restore it to its Monroe era appearance and was used as a parlor or sitting room and was termed the Monroe Room. [[James Monroe|James Monroe's]] French Empire center table was moved to the room, and a copy of the desk he signed the [[Monroe Doctrine]] upon was placed in the room. Additional efforts were made during the administration of [[Franklin Delano Roosevelt]] to furnish the room somewhat as it might have been when the house was built. Following the Truman reconstruction of the White House, the room was furnished by the interior design department of the New York department store [[B. Altman and Company]]. Nearly all the furniture was contemporary, generally in a traditional style.

During the administration of [[John F. Kennedy]], [[Jacqueline Kennedy]] worked with [[Stéphane Boudin]] of the [[Maison Jansen|House of Jansen]] to create a room that would represent a part of the house's Victorian era history. A palette of deep greens, burgundy and gold was adopted. President Grant's table was returned to the room along with an electrified gas chandelier once located in the [[East Room]]. The walls recreated a mid-nineteenth century treatment of ornamental frames of decorative paper based on the wallpaper in the room [[Abraham Lincoln]] was taken to and died in, in a house opposite [[Ford's Theater]]. A large gilded [[Rococo Revival]] overmantel mirror, with an American shield, which had once been hung in the [[Green Room (White House)|Green Room]] was installed. [[Theobald Chartran|Theobald Chartran's]] painting ''Signing of the Peace Protocol Between Spain and the United States, August 12, 1898'' was hung in the room along with copies of several treaties signed at the White House. Drapery was based on a design of Lincoln's era. President Kennedy signed the [[Nuclear Test Ban Treaty]] in the room in 1963. Boudin's design survived into the administration of [[George H. W. Bush]] who had the room painted a light green and simple printed chintz curtains installed.

During the [[Presidency of Bill Clinton|administration of Bill Clinton]] interior designer Kaki Hockersmith furnished the room in a mix of late [[American Empire style|American Empire]] and Victorian. Walls were covered with a simulated leather of a deep [[claret]] red and a gilded chandelier with an American eagle, one of several purchased during Theodore Roosevelt's administration for the residence and West Wing, was hung.

During the [[Presidency of George W. Bush|administration of George W. Bush]], interior designer Ken Blasingame had the walls painted off-white, replaced the Clinton drapery with simple panels of olive green velvet hung on wooden poles, and replaced the Empire style chandelier with an electrified Victorian crystal [[gasolier]]. The Treaty Room has also been home to ''[[The Peacemakers]]'', a large [[oil painting]] depicting U.S. President Lincoln in the final months of the American Civil War.

President Bush addressed the nation from the Treaty Room on October 7, 2001, announcing that the [[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|War in Afghanistan]] had begun. In his memoirs ''[[Decision Points]]'', Bush referred to the Treaty Room as "one of my favorite places in the White House."<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3MQRZLzCTE |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160226015350/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3MQRZLzCTE |archive-date=2016-02-26 |url-status=dead|title=''Decision Points'' audiobook))</ref>  On April 14, 2021, President [[Joe Biden]] spoke from the same room to announce that the United States would withdraw virtually all remaining United States troops in Afghanistan by September 11, 2021.

President [[Barack Obama]] used the Treaty Room as one of his primary working offices.<ref>((cite web|last=Tchou |first=Angela |url=http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2010/09/where_does_obama_work.html |title=Does Obama actually work in the Oval Office? |publisher=Slate.com |date=2010-09-10 |access-date=2013-09-24))</ref>

President [[Joe Biden]] used it as his primary working office during his two periods of isolation following his [[COVID-19]] [[Timeline of the Joe Biden presidency (2022 Q3)|positive test]] and his [[Timeline of the Joe Biden presidency (2022 Q3)#Week 80|second positive test]] due to [[Paxlovid]] rebound.

==References==
((Reflist|30em))

===Bibliography===
* Abbott James A., and Elaine M. Rice. ''Designing Camelot: The Kennedy White House Restoration.'' Van Nostrand Reinhold: 1998. ((ISBN|0-442-02532-7)).
* Garrett, Wendell. ''Our Changing White House.'' Northeastern University Press: 1995. ((ISBN|1-55553-222-5)).
* Monkman, Betty C. ''The White House: The Historic Furnishing & First Families.'' Abbeville Press: 2000. ((ISBN|0-7892-0624-2)).
* Seale, William. ''The President's House.'' White House Historical Association and the National Geographic Society: 1986. ((ISBN|0-912308-28-1)).
* Seale, William, ''The White House: The History of an American Idea.'' White House Historical Association: 1992, 2001. ((ISBN|0-912308-85-0)).
* Wolff, Perry. ''A Tour of the White House with Mrs. John F. Kennedy.'' Doubleday & Company: 1962.
* ''The White House: An Historic Guide.'' White House Historical Association and the National Geographic Society: 2001. ((ISBN|0-912308-79-6)).

==External links==
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* [https://georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov/history/whtour/dining.html White House Web site]
* [http://www.whitehousemuseum.org/floor2/treaty-room.htm White House Museum: Treaty Room]

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