Then again: The airwaves gave Coolidge a campaign advantage

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A crowd listens to speeches broadcast from speakers outside the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in 1924.Nearly a century before our current president took to Twitter, Calvin Coolidge embraced the new communication technology of his era, radio, to speak to the American people. In doing so, Coolidge became the first American politician to fully harness the power of a mass medium that wasn’t printed on paper.
Coolidge wasn’t the first president to use the