Oh MY! oh DEAR ME! I was SHOCKED!

WASHINGTON - A member of the media accidentally knocked a glass of water across President Barack Obama's desk on Friday.

As she was hustling into place, a sound technician working for a non-U.S. media organization hit the glass with the long handle of the boom microphone she was carrying. The mishap splashed water across Obama's famous but mostly empty desk.

The whack of the glass against the desk startled Obama, who did not see what happened. He was across the room with Zimbabwe's prime minister, Morgan Tsvangirai, for the start of their brief comments to the media - an event that is known in White House parlance as, fittingly enough, a pool spray.

"Uh oh," Obama said. He asked what got hit and was told it was the water glass.

Meanwhile, staff members worked quickly to sop up the spill.

"All right," Obama said with a smile. "It's the Resolution Desk. It's only like 100 years old."

Alas, the president was off a bit.

It is actually the Resolute Desk, made from the timbers of a British ship of the same name.

He was fairly close about the age of the desk, famously known for a photo showing John F. Kennedy's son, little John-John, poking his head out of a door. The desk was presented to President Rutherford B. Hayes in 1880 and has been used by almost every president ever since.
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