In 1934 she launched a series of interviews with “First Ladies of the Capitol,” mostly socialites and the wives of congressmen, and in May she asked Elizebeth to speak about her career on a national NBC broadcast. Elizebeth brought her children to the NBC radio studio in Washington; commercial radio was less than a decade old, still slightly wondrous, and she thought the kids might enjoy seeing the technology. Barbara was ten, John Ramsay was seven. The NBC staff let the kids watch their mother from the glassed-in control room adjacent to the sound booth, analog indicator needles twitching
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