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The Oval Office was in a shambles--the door to the
hall stood ajar, the guard was gone, and the passageway
leading to the door was jammed with the chairs,
couches, tables and other furniture that had been hur-
riedly removed from the President s office. The huge
three-screen television console had been left but a faded
quilted cover had been thrown over it and the family
pictures usually displayed on top of. the television cab-
inet were gone. The desk top was bare.
The curving west wall was inse ~, with light-green
bookshelves. Long ago some General Services Admin-
istration interior decorator had been called in to select
sets of books to be placed on these shelves; he had
chosen them for the color and design of their bindings,
and had placed them, inert, between golden eagle book-
ends. Three china vases of obscure origin filled the gaps
between the sets of books.
Apparently the President s thoughts bad rested often
on the opposite side of the room where French doors
and tall windows opened the view to the White House
residence and the snow-covered garden in between. In
front of the windows was a totem-like cedar carving, a
gift from constituents in the President s home state; it
squatted there like a benign house god. Between the
northernmost window and a curved door leading to the
secretaries room, columned pedestals held large bowls
filled with fresh-cut flowers. On the walls on either side
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The Company pdf epub mobi txt 电子书 下载 2024