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Heinl Radio News Service
8/20/47
Mr. Smith tells about the wartime innovation on the presidential train, and now a fixed piece of equipment, “the miraculous radio car developed by the Army Signal Corps. Whether rolling or not, the radio car maintains constant communication with the White House through short wave and radio teletype. Thus the President always has at his command instantaneous communication facilities with every other world capital."
The author makes an interesting comparison of the speak¬ ing abilities of Mr. Roosevelt and former Prime Minister Churchill:
"Churchill was a great, dramatic showman and actually a better speaker than Mr. Roosevelt. Churchill's speeches during the war contained much finer rhetoric than the Roosevelt speeches, but when it came to radio technique, Churchill could not come close.
"To Mr. Roosevelt, the microphone was as much of a political instrument as a ward leader. He knew how to use radio with quality rarely approached by political contemporaries. His deep resonant voice was an organ upon which he played with the skill of a fine musician. "
Mr. Smith gives a very realistic description of the White House press and radio conferences. Speaking of the first of these ordeals, he writes:
"The President was as nervous as a Derby favorite at the barrier. He started three times before the reporters were all in the room. Three hundred press and radio reporters were present. Knowing his habit of speaking rapidly, I asked, 'Will you take it sort of slow for us today?'
"The President said he would; glad to do anything he could to accommodate the reporters."
The author speaks in detail of the secret trip to the Pacific during the war where, before leaving the country.
President Roosevelt accepted his renomination in a radio address on the Pacific Coast, then sailed quietly for Hawaii without the public being aware that he was absent from the United States.
Mr. Smith writes:
"It was difficult for the three wire service reporters and the one radio 'pool' man Carleton Smith of N.B.C. to get information that would stick. * * * *
"Admiral Brown told me that we would have to put a Washington date line on the story and say nothing about the President's real whereabouts. I bucked at that; told him a Washington dateline would be an outright lie and that security or
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