President Hoover has telephone installed in Oval Office - This Day in History – Mar 29th

Back in 1929, President Herbert Hoover had a phone installed in his Oval Office on his desk at the White House.  The task of adding a phone proved to be a nuisance to President Hoover. 

According to history.com, “It took a while to get the line to Hoover's desk working correctly and the president complained to aides when his son was unable to get through on the Oval Office phone from an outside line. Previously, Hoover had used a phone located in the foyer just outside the office. Telephones and a telephone switchboard had been in use at the White House since 1878, when President Rutherford B. Hayes had the first one installed, but no phone had ever been installed at the president's desk until Hoover's administration.”

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