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The first occupant of the White House who picked up the phone (Rutherford B. Hayes, on the 29 June 1877) could only speak with the neighbouring Treasury Department. There were no telephone operators or switchboards and the sound was very poor, but the then President of the United States did not hesitate to describe […]