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President Franklin D. Roosevelt

No mansion is complete without a personal movie theater. So in 1942 Franklin D. Roosevelt had an old coat closet nicknamed “The Hatbox” converted into a private screening room. He used it to watch news reel coverage from the war. But presidents had watched movies in the White House before; the first film ever seen in the White House was a special 1915 showing of The Birth of a Nation.





President Harry S. Truman

Harry S. Truman delivered the first televised presidential speech from the White House in 1947. His speech focused on food conservation at a time when Europe was still suffering from famine following World War II. He had the first television set installed as well, but he rarely watched it.
In a precursor to MTV’s Cribs, Truman would later invite several reporters with television camera to tour the newly renovated White House in 1952, virtually inviting the American public into the presidential pad.