WASHINGTON — President Trump has designated the Oval Office, the Outer Oval Office and the Cabinet Room as the Oval Office National Monument, a proclamation that puts the National Park Service in charge of protecting the rooms’ historic character and requires a review of alternatives before any major structural change. The proclamation, signed Nov. 5, was published in the Federal Register on Thursday as Proclamation 11080.
“The Oval Office stands as one of the most recognizable and historically significant spaces in the United States,” the proclamation says. It calls the room “a symbol of the American Presidency itself,” says “decisions of profound national and international consequence have been made within its walls,” and finds that it “merits specific recognition and protective management as a discrete historic structure of national significance.”
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