"My Dear Mr. President," 1939: Radio Broadcast of Interior Secretary Harold Ickes' Annual Report to the President (Part 1)
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Photo shows production of the U.S. Department of Interior's radio play "My Dear Mr. President," broadcast on January 8, 1939, the subject of which was the Interior Secretary's annual report to the President (Source: "Not So Free Air," Saturday Evening Post, Feb. 11, 1939)</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">The penthouse studio for radio broadcasts on the roof of the Interior Building consisted of reception room, office, script writers' room, small and large studios, and sound control room. These actors are members of the cast for My Dear Mr. President, a play based upon the President's budget message [i.e Interior Secretary's annual report] presented in January 1939 through the channels of the national hookups</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Part of the Harris & Ewing Collection (Library of Congress)</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Part 1- of the recording of the radio broadcast is presented in the attachment "Broadcast", which contains 14 of 16 segments of the broadcast. This represents pages 1-41 of the Script, which is also attached.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Source: The Library of Congress.</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Note to Museum Visitor</span></p>
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<p style="text-align:justify;"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">The attached broadcast recording and the pre-air script are related to an article by Professor Mordecai Lee,<em><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">“Public Reporting in Public Administration, circa 1939: The Annual Report as Fictional Radio Stories.” </span></em>The article is forthcoming in Public Voices (2016) Volume XV Number 1.</span></p>
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Harris & Ewing Photographer
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Library of Congress
1939 January
Library of Congress
First photo: Members of the Cast 1939. From the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. <br /><br />Second photo: Members of the Cast for "My Dear Mr. President". Link: <a href="http://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/hec2009012588/">Library of Congress</a>.<br /><br />Gallery media: <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Dhj76sYjAivYTP4JBFyB5jUZ3n4aJy-M">Script - See pp. 1 to 41</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Dhj76sYjAivYTP4JBFyB5jUZ3n4aJy-M">My Dear Mr. President Radio Broadcast</a>
<span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;">Follow the link for free access to </span><a href="https://www.academia.edu/38537511/Storytelling_from_Public_Records_Finding_Empathy_in_the_Days_Following_the_2015_Unrest_in_Baltimore_City"><b><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#c51b35;">Public Voices</span></b></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;color:#000000;"> issues</span>
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Radio, Harold Ickes, Department of Interior, Public Reporting, Presidents, Interior Secretary, Budget
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"My Dear Mr. President," 1939: Radio Broadcast of Interior Secretary Harold Ickes' Annual Report to the President (Part 2)
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<p>Photo shows production of the U.S. Department of Interior's radio play "My Dear Mr. President," broadcast on January 8, 1939, the subject of which was the Interior Secretary's annual report to the President (Source: "Not So Free Air," Saturday Evening Post, Feb. 11, 1939)</p>
<p>Part of the Harris & Ewing Collection (Library of Congress)</p>
<p>Part 2- of the recording of the radio broadcast is presented in the attachment "Broadcast 2", which contains segments15 &16 of Interior Secretary's Harrold L. Ickes' Speech. This represents pages 42-46 of the Script, which is also attached. (The rest of the file is unrelated to the Department of Interior’s radio program. Due to the technical limitations, the Virtual Museum was not able to edit the second file to consist solely of parts 15 and 16 of that broadcast.)</p>
<p>Source: The Library of Congress.</p>
<p>Note to Museum Visitor</p>
The attached broadcast recording and the pre-air script are related to an article by Professor Mordecai Lee,<em>“Public Reporting in Public Administration, circa 1939: The Annual Report as Fictional Radio Stories.” </em>The article is forthcoming in Public Voices (2016) Volume XV Number 1.
Harris & Ewing Photographer
https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/hec/25800/25894r.jpg, https://cdn.loc.gov/service/pnp/hec/25900/25900r.jpg
Library of Congress
1939 January
Library of Congress
First Photo: Members of the Cast - My Dear President 1939. <br /><br />From the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. <br /><br />Second photo: From the U.S. Department of the Interior Radio. <br /><br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Dhj76sYjAivYTP4JBFyB5jUZ3n4aJy-M">Ickes' Report to the President, 1939</a>
Gallery Media: <a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Dhj76sYjAivYTP4JBFyB5jUZ3n4aJy-M">Script - See pp. 42 to 46</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Dhj76sYjAivYTP4JBFyB5jUZ3n4aJy-M"></a>
Medium: Photograph
English
Radio
Radio, Harold Ickes, Department of Interior, Public Reporting, Presidents, Interior Secretary
Historic