parlor question: oval office edition

[queenlua]

You are the president of the United States.

As president, you apparently can display whatever cool damn object you want in the Oval Office. For instance, Joe Biden asked for a 0.7 pound moon rock and I gotta say it looks fly as hell.

What object do you request to have in your Oval Office?

(i'm blithely assuming you can get basically anything from the Smithsonian Museums, the Library of Congress, any major US national/state archives, etc. i am assuming you probably cannot get e.g. the Mona Lisa loaned to you, but you could probably get various other artsy/historic objects loaned from abroad if they're less famous and/or less-obviously-a-major-centerpiece-of-tourism? idk, feel free to make your case for whatever outlandish idea you come up with; this is mostly an excuse to hear everyone's Platonic Ideal Of A Cool Desk Bauble)

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[rabid_bookwyrm]

A really cool old book or piece of writing - maybe one of the foundational scientific texts. My college library had a copy of The Atom, Albert Crehore, 1920 and discovering that on the shelf was one of the best days. Or something foundational by a Black or Native person, although I'd want input. But when I am god-king of America, I'll have good advisors, I'm sure we can pick something with a lot of symbolic umph.

[queenlua]

discovering Very Old Important Books in random parts of the library was one of the most satisfying things about being on a university campus... miss those days!