How FDR's voice guided Americans through some of America's most challenging years

NPR | By Clare Lombardo

Published June 30, 2026 at 3:13 PM CDT

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President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's voice was piped directly into American living rooms during the 1930s and '40s. The NBC microphone he used is on display at the Smithsonian.

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