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Presidents and press conferences through the years
A compact survey traces early presidential news conferences from Adams to Coolidge and Harding. It notes Harding's explosive Pacific pledge, FDR's 1935 clash with the Supreme Court, and Coolidge's famously quiet sessions, highlighting the evolution of media handling and the shift to written questions.
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