President Obama spoke on live TV from the Oval Office on Sunday night to tell the world that the United States will not take the threat of terrorism sitting down. So he didn't sit down. Maybe it's ...

President Obama has only spoken two previous times from the Oval Office. By rarely using it as a setting, he heightens the importance of his message when he does use it.

Obama has set a less formal tone for the Oval Office from his first days as president. When the White House released its first picture of him at work there, Obama was in shirt sleeves.

President Barack Obama moved the Martin Luther King Jr. bust into the Oval Office in 2009. Trump kept it during his first ...

Sunday night's Oval Office address will mark only the third time President Obama has addressed the nation from his inner sanctum. For other presidents, the Oval Office has been a go-to venue for ...

President Barack Obama shakes hands with President-elect Donald Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Nov. 10, 2016.

On May 20, 2011, inside the Oval Office and before the cameras, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lectured President ...

On May 20, 2011, inside the Oval Office and before the cameras, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu lectured President Barack Obama. The incident was the closest the two countries came to a ...

“I was in a deep deficit with my wife,” Obama, now 63, confessed. “So I have been trying to dig myself out of that hole by occasionally doing fun things.” ...

The desk is the most important prop on the Oval Office set, and Obama didn't use it. In many situations, there are benefits to standing. But in the Oval Office, Obama was trying to have it both ways.