The desk in the Secretary of the Army's office is a massive mahogany block, seven feet wide and five feet deep. Ornately carved, it was first used in 1881 by Secretary of War Robert Todd Lincoln, son of President Lincoln and appointed secretaryrnby President James Garfield. A card under the glass desktop tells us that the government paid $300 for the desk, twice the annual pay of a private in 1881.
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