Podcasts History This Day in Esoteric Political History The Ask President Carter 1-900 Number (1977)

The Ask President Carter 1-900 Number (1977)

Published: March 5, 2024, 9:30 a.m.

It\u2019s March 5th. This day in 1977, President Jimmy Carter and CBS\u2019s Walter Cronkite took phone calls, unfiltered, from Americans all over the country who had dialed into 1-900-242-9611.

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Jody, Niki, and Kellie discuss what happened during the Dial-A-President experiment, the logistics of how it all came together, and how it serves as a perfect snapshot of the era.

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