The Roosevelt Room is a meeting room in the West Wing of the White House, the official home and principal workplace of the President of the United States. Located almost in the center of the West Wing, and near the Oval Office the room is named for two related U.S. presidents, Theodore Roosevelt and Franklin Delano Roosevelt. The two arguably contributed more than any other presidents to the design and construction of the West Wing.
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