Historic Desk Loaned to Tip O'Neill

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Summary

House Speaker Thomas P. (Tip) O'Neill, Jr., requests a desk of historical significance for his Capitol Hill office and is loaned an oak desk from the National Museum of History and Technology collection used by President Grover Cleveland in his New York law office. It was restored at the Cabinet Shop in the Capitol.

Subject

  • O'Neill, Tip
  • National Museum of American History (U.S.) (NMAH)
  • National Museum of History and Technology (U.S.)
  • United States Congress

Category

Chronology of Smithsonian History

Notes

Torch, 3/1977, p. 2

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Institution Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1977

Topic

  • Loans
  • National Collections

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