February 2, 1999 The Telephone Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876. Can you imagine being President and not having a telephone? Truman surely used the phone for all of kinds of important messages before, during, and after he was president. In one picture he is using an earlier model of the telephone in 1945 when he was Vice President of the United States. The other picture shows the important position of the telephone on the President's desk in the Oval Office.
Jon
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