Vice President Joe Biden Joe BidenThe Memo: Warning signs flash for Trump on debates Senate Republicans signal openness to working with Biden National postal mail handlers union endorses Biden MORE continued a longstanding tradition Friday when he signed the inside of his desk drawer in his Eisenhower Building ceremonial office.

“This is the proof I was vice president,” Biden quipped, according to pool reports.

He was joined in the ceremony by his wife Jill and dozens of staffers.

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“You know, it’s some fast company here,” Biden said as he looked over signatures of past vice presidents. “From Harry Truman and George Bush Sr. and Dwight D. Eisenhower.”





“This is a great honor to be in this position,” he said. “It has been the great honor of our lives the last eight years to be able to serve in this capacity.”

Biden then signed and dated the desk alongside former vice president Al Gore Albert (Al) Arnold GoreFox's Napolitano: 2000 election will look like 'child's play' compared to 2020 legal battles Who calls an election? Why we need patience and nonpartisanship this time Universal mail-in voting jeopardizes the equal right to vote, but absentee voting protects it MORE’s signature.

The desk is one of only four to have been used in the Oval Office, Biden’s office said.

According to Biden's office, the desk dates back to Theodore Roosevelt’s presidency and has been used by several other presidents and vice presidents.

Its drawer was signed by President Harry Truman and Dwight D. Eisenhower, then-Vice President George H.W. Bush, and Vice Presidents Dick Cheney, Al Gore, Dan Quayle, Walter Mondale and Nelson Rockefeller.