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Author of the new book PRESIDENTS OF WAR (Crown). Nine books. @NBCNews Presidential Historian. Contributor PBS @NewsHour. Williams College. Born Chicago.

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    Michael Beschloss‏Verified account @BeschlossDC Sep 22

    For those asking about this historical anachronism, a telegram is defined as "a message sent by telegraph and then delivered in written or printed form.” Anyone need to know about “typewriter” or “telephone booth”?

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      1. TheMominatrixx ⏰TickTock... it’s #MuellerTime!‏ @TheMominatrixx Sep 23
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        😂In the 80’s, I worked at at a law firm with a Telex machine (for the younguns, a post-WWII system of sending text-based messages, before @Twitter) After a name change, they made💰selling their old handle: HOWDY, because the tech was still being used in Africa + Middle East.pic.twitter.com/acWj7Mf7f6

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      1. jane berglund-hess‏ @BerglundHess Sep 23
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        I know and have used both a typewriter and a telephone in a booth... Oh, the days of having to make sure one carried coins to be able make a phone call...!!!

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      1. Alex  🍁 🦉 🌿 🍂 🍃‏ @sweetcorrieb Sep 23
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        Pencil sharpener.

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      1. NicasDream‏ @theFiveandDime Sep 23
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        And these ladies. . .pic.twitter.com/trEcVNU7tL

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      1. Deanne Wasleske‏ @dmwasleske Sep 23
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        Thanks for asking! I knew the answers. Nice to have a little giggle.

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      1. Paul J Elliott‏ @PaulJElliott Sep 23
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        But did we ever have a president who was obsessed with sending telegrams?

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      1. Dana Seltzer Levin‏ @DanaAynn Sep 23
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        LOL

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      2. Paul Risley‏ @pauldrisley Sep 22
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        Best part of movie “The Post” is watching the enormous typesetting machine in operation, including melting the lead for the letter blocks. Where did they find a machine that still runs?

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      3. Steve Collins‏ @SteveCollinsSJ Sep 23
        Replying to @pauldrisley @BeschlossDC

        At the Museum of Printing in Mass. It is a great place.

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      4. Paul Risley‏ @pauldrisley Sep 23
        Replying to @SteveCollinsSJ @BeschlossDC

        In 1980, the Michigan Daily in Ann Arbor still had one; at my 1st job in DC we had a big blue computer typesetter, big as the Star Trek teleporter.

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      1. Kathy Schaefer‏ @sandrunner58 Sep 22
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        Funny. I wrote a dissertation on a typewriter (hard to imagine). Maybe harder for me to believe was that I used phone booths, never thinking a lot about the ick factor. Love seeing you with Ms. Maddow.

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      1. Kimberly Briggs‏ @Kimm_Briggs_7 Sep 22
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        Thanks for the laugh! Still have my typewriter. My parents saved for months to buy it for me when I was in Nursing School

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      2. Lori Sirianni‏ @4AnimalLife Sep 22
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        We had an old Royal typewriter & I always carried a dime for a phone call. Remember rotary phones & no answering machine, four TV stations and our old dial antenna before cable TV, 8-tracks, cassettes & vinyl, transistor radios, ditto machines, old cash registers, and no 💻 or 📱

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      3. Mrs Iglesias‏ @LikeIceLikeFire Sep 22
        Replying to @4AnimalLife @BeschlossDC

        One might assume that we had boring childhoods given the limitations of rotary phones, typewriters, and only four TV channels. But a creativity emerged from learning how to keep ourselves entertained!

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      4. Lori Sirianni‏ @4AnimalLife Sep 22
        Replying to @LikeIceLikeFire @BeschlossDC

        Heck, yes! I'm so glad we didn't have electronic gadgets then. We read books, I drew & painted, we had Hot Wheels, Lego, train sets & played outside much of the time-tag, hide and seek, climbing trees, riding bikes, swimming, ice skating, tobogganing, making snowmen. What fun. 😊

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      1. slightly animated meat popsicle‏ @JohnGalenel Sep 22
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        Remember clay records?

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      1. Judith Penn‏ @JudithPenn8 Sep 22
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        Love it

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      1. David Carroll‏ @Gort6tw1 Sep 22
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        Would you agree telegraphs relied on Morse code, which actually employed communication via a binary system of electrical impulses? Today's digital systems have a rich heritage.

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      1. Kathy Cothrum‏ @KCothrum Sep 22
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        I tried to explain the telephone booth to my 6 year old granddaughter several years ago. She insisted on seeing a picture of one and asked many questions about 'the olden days' without cell service. Very funny.

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      1. Bob Culley‏ @BobCulley Sep 22
        Replying to @BeschlossDC

        You mean that newfangled electrical contraption that’s putting the semaphor telegraph operators out of work? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semaphore_line …

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