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Subj: Today in History - Mar 29
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1929
Herbert Hoover has telephone installed in Oval Office
On this day in 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 the office. Telephones and a telephone switchboard had
been in use at the White House since 1878, when President
Rutherford B. Hayes had the first one installed, but no phone had
ever been installed at the president's desk until Hoover's
administration.
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