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Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first president to appear on television. It happened in April of 1939 when he spoke at the opening ceremonies of the World's Fair. It was a very limited experimental broadcast. The first president to appear on national television to give an address from the White House was Harry S. Truman in 1947.

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