When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didnt 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.
LOL, even the late Robin Williams nailed Biden for that.
Language
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OQ0V8EY_gGY