President's Radio Address

[Sean Smyth]

On Wed, 09 Jun 2004 01:09:12 +0000, "A. Joseph Ross" wrote:
> I don't think I've seen it mentioned in all the coverage in memory of
President Ronald 
> Reagan, but I believe he was the one who began the custom of the President's
weekly radio 
> address, which subsequent Presidents have continued.

I remember hearing some dude named FDR did it, too. (They were weekly, were they
not?)

> Which reminds me, does any station in the Boston area carry the President's
weekly radio 
> address?  Does any station anywhere carry it?  Do the stations carrying the
address change 
> when a new President brings a different political orientation?

Bush I stopped the tradition of the weekly radio address, and Clinton brought it
back to life. WBZ airs it, and ISTR WBUR doing the same.