{"id":22326,"date":"2015-02-16T06:15:27","date_gmt":"2015-02-16T11:15:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eyesofageneration.com\/?p=22326"},"modified":"2016-10-23T06:54:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T10:54:30","slug":"presidents-day-special-first-president-coast-to-coast-not-only-is-presiden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/?p=22326","title":{"rendered":"President&#8217;s Day Special&#8230;First President, Coast To Coast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\"  title=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Presidents-Day-Special...First-President-Coast-To-Coast-Not-only-is-Presiden.jpg\" \/><\/a><br \/>President&#8217;s Day Special&#8230;First President, Coast To Coast <\/p>\n<p>Not only is President Truman the first President to be broadcast cost to coast, he was the first person to do this! The first coast to coast broadcast, September 4, 1951 was made by President Harry Truman who made the principal speech at the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference in San Francisco. The video is below. <\/p>\n<p>AT&#038;T was close to inaugurating their new cross country coaxial and microwave relay, but when it was announced that Truman would be the attending instead of his Secretary of State, AT&#038;T pushed hard to get it finished and did, just in time. Enjoy and share! -Bobby Ellerbee     <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/video\/nightly-news\/52919436 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/52919436\">#52919436<\/a>&#8221; target=&#8221;_blank&#8221;>http:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/video\/nightly-news\/52919436 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hashtag\/52919436\">#52919436<\/a><\/a>Video on msnbc.com: The first coast to coast broadcast, September 4, 1951 was made by President Harry Truman who made the principal speech at the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference in San Francisco.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/189359747768249\/posts\/798974670140084\">Source<\/a>  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President&#8217;s Day Special&#8230;First President, Coast To Coast Not only is President Truman the first President to be broadcast cost to coast, he was the first person to do this! The first coast to coast broadcast, September 4, 1951 was made by President Harry Truman who made the principal speech at the Japanese Peace Treaty Conference [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":22327,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_popup_image":0,"_vp_format_audio_url":"","_vp_album_images":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail":0,"_vp_custom_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"_vp_custom_thumbnail_cover":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail":0,"_vp_hover_thumbnail_focal_point":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=22326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22326\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/22327"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.eyesofageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}