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Fascinating stuff. Thanks for posting.
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Tesla should have gotten that prize.
Great capsule history.
The author closes with “Government ‘of the people, by the people, and for the people’ – as Lincoln put it – can thrive only when voters are informed by a truly robust exchange of ideas.”
Today, the Dems lock their Alzheimer’s patient candidate away hoping to heaven that there is no “robust exchange of ideas.” If they were to honestly expose their plans to “fundamentally transform” the USA into the USSA, they would lose almost 100% of the electoral votes.
“When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn’t just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed.”
There was no commercial television in 1929 (only a very crude mechanical experimental system). They did have record players, though.
It’s hard to believe that AM radio is 100 years old this.
Off topic, but I recall being a little boy, fascinated by how you hear stations from far away at night. I used to look forward to sundown, and hearing far away radio stations on my little transistor radio.
And this tied in with my interest in baseball. I recall hearing night games broadcast on WLW in Cincinnati, WJR in Detroit, WGN and WMAQ in Chicago, and hearing Harry Carey on KMOX broadcasting Cardinal games.
The amazing thing is, New England was for Harding, and the south was solid for the liberal dem Cox.
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***More than ever before, a finely honed (TV)image became the key to political power. ***
How true! I still remember, back in 1960, the debate between Jack Kennedy and Richard Nixon.
On Radio, NIXON won the debate.
On TV, Kennedy won the debate because of Nixon’s “shifty” looks.
I thought Brian Williams reported the Harding victory over the radio that year?
