HARDING, WARREN G., President. Typed letter signed ("Warren G Harding") as President, to Richard Washburn Child, Ambassador to Rome, Washington, D.C., 8 February 1922. 2 3/4 pages, 4to, White House stationery, small rust stain, a blue penciled "F" in one corner. RADIO COMES TO THE WHITE HOUSE An unusually detailed letter in which President Harding comments on the new medium of radio, the selection of a new Pope and wistful thoughts of Italy. Harding had recently spoken at Arlington Cemetary: "...There were appproximately thirty thousand... apart from those who could get inside the amphitheater...there was employed an amplification of the telephonic device which was tried out quite successfully at inauguration time... quite apart from this, the lines were connected with Madison Square Garden in New York and some great assemblage hall in San Francisco... Only a few weeks ago I talked to a gentleman who stood on the streets of New York and had the weird experience of listening to my address in Arlington Cemetery... I should ask you to send us a gossipy, inside, confidential story about the interesting phases of choosing a new Pope..." Harding was the first president to broadcast over the radio, in June 1922, and was the first president to have a radio, installed at the White House on the same day that this letter was written.
HARDING, WARREN G., President. Typed letter signed ("Warren G Harding") as President, to Richard Washburn Child, Ambassador to Rome, Washington, D.C., 8 February 1922. 2 3/4 pages, 4to, White House stationery, small rust stain, a blue penciled "F" in one corner. RADIO COMES TO THE WHITE HOUSE An unusually detailed letter in which President Harding comments on the new medium of radio, the selection of a new Pope and wistful thoughts of Italy. Harding had recently spoken at Arlington Cemetary: "...There were appproximately thirty thousand... apart from those who could get inside the amphitheater...there was employed an amplification of the telephonic device which was tried out quite successfully at inauguration time... quite apart from this, the lines were connected with Madison Square Garden in New York and some great assemblage hall in San Francisco... Only a few weeks ago I talked to a gentleman who stood on the streets of New York and had the weird experience of listening to my address in Arlington Cemetery... I should ask you to send us a gossipy, inside, confidential story about the interesting phases of choosing a new Pope..." Harding was the first president to broadcast over the radio, in June 1922, and was the first president to have a radio, installed at the White House on the same day that this letter was written.
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