You know the voices of our TV age presidents, but what did the earlier ones sound like in the days of wax cylinders and phonographs? For Presidents Day, Angry History rolls the earliest presidential voices from President Benjamin Harrison in 1889, through William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover in 1932 — and we even debunk a fake Grover Cleveland clip along the way.
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It’s the war between the states of Alaska and Ohio. The highest peak in North America is named after William McKinley, our 25th president, slain by an assassin in 1901. But some folks in Alaska want to replace his name with a native one. Here’s the case for and against, and suggestions for a McCompromise worthy of the Idol of Ohio himself.