President Herbert Hoover didn’t have his own email server.
Obviously.
Also, he didn’t have a telephone at his desk when he took
office on March 4, 1929.
Hoover was the first president to install a telephone in the
Oval Office. Otherwise, he would have had to use the phone in the lobby just
outside it.
A few weeks after Hoover began his term, an initially pesky
instrument was wired up on his desk. At first, it wouldn’t work properly, but
the White House crew put it right.
Let’s be fair: a telephone system and switchboard was
installed in the White House in 1878, only two years after Alexander Graham
Bell received his patent. However, the telegraph system was the dominant
communications channel at that time.
The telegraph stayed in the No. 1 spot in the U. S. through
the end of the 19th century—in 1900, almost all of the telephone traffic in America was confined to strictly local calls. The long-distance
telephone network became a 20th century phenomenon.
Copyright © Richard Carl Subber 2015
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