Today in 1924, Calvin Coolidge delivered the first political speech by a sitting president to be broadcast on the radio. It was carried on five stations, with an estimated five million listeners. As radio broadcasting took off in the early 1920s, Silent Cal (it was said that he could be silent in five languages) used it on many occasions. For example, h…
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