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In the 1940s and 50s, Bell Telephone develops a new service.

The car phone.

Using Western Elatric and Motorola, they began offering phones to important people in certain cities and along certain highways.

Washington, of course, had this service.

It's all based on VHF, the same technology that TV was running on at that time.

It's a bit clunky.

You have to have a transmitter and a power supply in your trunk taking a lot of space. There was an antenna in the roof.

And it was like one of them old black rotary phones with the handset, quaily cable.

You pick it up, flick on a switch, and get an operator to call your party.

There weren't many subscribers about 4,000 in the United States.

But Lyndon Johnson, majority leader of the Senate, was one of them.

He was the first legislator in Washington to have one.

And so the story goes that one day whenever Dirk said the Republican,

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