Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Resolute Desk, Rembrandt Peale

Oct. 21, 2015 "when vice president biden decided not to run for president, he asked to make the announcement in the rose garden. The president looked over remarks as the morning sun splashed through the oval office. In all honesty, as i was making this photograph, i didn't know yet the vice president's decision. But either way, i thought it was important to symbolically include the president's chair in my frame. In retrospect, i soon realized that if he had decided to run for president, the vice president would have made the announcement from somewhere other than at the white house. " (official white house photo by pete souza).