Jed, I agree with your point below. But this gives me an
occasion to express my bafflement over the President’s radio
address. In my few years, never once have I been surfing the radio
dial on a Saturday and found the President opining. Maybe some
older (by older, I mean that Reagan was president when I was born)
AmSpecBloggers can shed some light: was the President’s radio
address once regularly and widely broadcast? Is this an
anarchronism, now only useful for slow-news weekends and sound-bite
excerpts?