The Boy Under the Resolute Desk

In 1963, photographer Stanley Tretick captured one of the most iconic images in American history: three-year-old John F. Kennedy Jr. crawling beneath the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office while his father, the President of the United States, worked above him. Outside that door stood Secret Service agents, generals with stars on their shoulders, and ambassadors clutching briefcases full of urgent business.…