Presidential Office

The Presidential Office is the primary workspace and office of the President of the United Federation of Planets. Located on Floor Fifteen of the Palais de la Concorde, Presidential Office is a half-circle, taking up a significant percentage of Fifteen, with the entire curved part of the wall taken up with a window that shows the River Seine, the Tour Eiffel, the Bâtiment Vingt-Troisième Siècle, and the Champs Elysées.

In front of the window is typically located the president's desk; when President Amitra of Pandril assumed office in 2365, she had a large desk made of a hard, lightly patterned material known as salish, which is native to the planet Atrea, brought to the Palais and used as her desk. Her successors, Jaresh-Inyo of Grazer and Min Zife of Bolarus, used different desks, but the Amitra Desk was brought back to the Presidential Office in late 2379 by President Nanietta Bacco of Cestus. Min Zife's desk had had a replicator built into the structure.

Parallel to the desk is typically placed a large sofa, several yards away from the desk; perpendicular to the desk and the sofa are often placed chairs forming two lines. Different presidents typically install different carpets into the Office; Min Zife preferred white, while Nan Bacco installed dark green.

There are three enterances into the Presidential Office; the leftmost of the doors (from the presidential desk's point of view) leads into the turbolife area. The middle door leads to the waiting room, where the Secretary to the President of the United Federation of Planets operates, and the rightmost door leads to the president's private study.

The Presidential Office is heavilly shielded to protect its inhabitants from exterior attack and abduction. (A Time to Kill, Articles of the Federation.)