The Oval Office (60 images)

President Gerald Ford, shown in a November 7, 1974 file photo in the Oval Office with his golden retriever, Liberty, died at the age of 93 in his home in Rancho Mirage, California on December 26, 2006. (UPI Photo/ David Hume Kennerly/Gerald R. Ford Library)

While President George Bush, meets with Mikhail Saakashvili, in the Oval Office of the White House July 5, 2006, Vice President Dick Cheney, left, Press Secretary Tony Snow, and Deputy Secretary of State Robert B. Zoellick. right listen on. (UPI Photo/Ken Cedeno/POOL)

U.S. President George W. Bush names Air Force Gen. Michael Hayden (R) to be the next CIA Director, as National Intelligence Director John Negroponte looks on, in the Oval Office of the White House on May 8, 2006. Hayden will replace Porter Goss of confirmed. (UPI Photo/Roger L. Wollenberg).

President George W. Bush reads a draft of his State of the Union speech in the Oval Office at the White House on January 31, 2006. (UPI Photo/Eric Draper/White House)