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More than two centuries after President George Washington signed the act that authorized the construction of the frigate USS Constitution, a sailor from Maine is part of a team that has linked the earliest steps of a new nation to a very different present-day United States government.
Builder 2nd Class Donald Morse IV, of Lyman, a member of Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command in Washington, D.C., was part of a team of four who repurposed wood from the ship, as well as parts from several other historic U.S. Navy vessels, to create executive desks for the offices of the vice president and the U.S. secretary of the Navy.