The Radio Museum is so Presidential

 

February is Presidents’ Month 

It’s Presidential the way our Nation’s Leaders loved radio. “How can I reach more people?” The answer was Radio.

Calvin Coolidge, promoting that his speeches could be heard on the radio. 1924. 

Radio was becoming huge.  Franklin Delano Roosevelt began his Fireside Chats in 1933 to talk to America in a friendly, conversational way. He spoke to America this way 31 separate times.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The man had zero mic fright.  It looks like FDR was collecting microphones.  

 

 

 

Richard Nixon came to Modesto one time, and radio was his platform:

A young Ronald Reagan was a radio star on his way to bigger things.

He brought a radio microphone to the White House for weekly radio addresses.

 

 

 

 

George Bush and  Bill Clinton were big users of radio:

Modesto’s Richard Strauss* served three years as White House Radio Director.
George W. Bush delivered 18 radio addresses.

 

 

 

 

 

 

*How did Modesto’s Richard Strauss get to the White House??  Click here and learn all about it.

By Popular vote, at least around here, Graffiti Gold is America’s favorite Oldies streaming station. Give a listen!    You’ll be glad you did.  Politically speaking, you can trust us.  Honest.

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Speaking of honesty, we pay lawyers to remind us to tell you The Modesto Radio Museum Foundation is a licensed non-profit 501 (c)(3) organization, E.I.N. 37-1562756.