Every girl needs a desk to do her homework on

In a world where gay sex advice columnist Dan Savage can buy Ann Landers's desk at auction and use it for his own work, maybe it was only a matter of time before an African-American girl would put President Lincoln's desk to good use:

When [10-year-old Malia Obama] came back from her White House visit recently, she told her dad that she plans to [do her homework] at the desk in the Lincoln bedroom.

Obama, who is known to be an avid reader of Lincoln history, said his daughter told him "I'm going to sit at that desk, because I'm thinking that will inspire big thoughts."

During the interview, Obama described the desk as being the spot where Lincoln signed the Gettysburg Address. While there is a copy of the address on display in that room, it actually was the Emancipation Proclamation freeing the slaves that Lincoln signed there.