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Smithsonian Secretary Lonnie Bunch identified President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s 1930s NBC microphone—used during fireside chats—as a symbol of hope, noting that FDR used the newest technology of the era to reassure Americans during the Great Depression.
“One of the things that I think is so powerful about America is one of our aspirations is hope... the notion of, in the Great Depression, America worried about, is it going to survive? And suddenly yo…”
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