The White House Treaty Room has a deep history. Presidents Ulysses S. Grant, Rutherford B. Hayes, and William McKinley used it as their Cabinet Room—McKinley signed the peace protocol ending the Spanish-American War at its cabinet table in 1898. Who knows what he would have made of a Diet Coke button.
John F. Kennedy sat at the same table in 1963 and signed the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty, a document that, however imperfect, acknowledged that nuclear war between two superpowers would be catastrophic for everyone involved.
President George W. Bush used the room in October 2001 to start the “Enduring Freedom” war in Afghanistan after 9/11. And Joe Biden went there in April 2021 to announce the end of the 20-year conflict in the country.
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