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From: KF5JRVDate: Fri, 27 Mar 26 10:14:00 Z
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Subject: Today in History - Mar 27
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On March 27, 1929, President Herbert Hoover has a phone installed at his desk in the Oval Office of the White House. It took a
while to get the line to Hoover’s desk working correctly and the president complained to aides when his son was unable to get
through on the Oval Office phone from an outside line. Previously, Hoover had used a phone located in the foyer just outside t
he office. Telephones and a telephone switchboard had been in use at the White House since 1878, when President Rutherford B. H
ayes had the first one installed, but no phone had ever been installed at the president’s desk until Hoover’s administratio
n.
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