Here's a look at the legendary White House telephone line: 1. Who answers when I call the White House? Depends on which number you call. The public comment line (202-456-1111) is manned by ...

On this day in 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes had the first telephone installed in the telegraph room of the White House. Hayes was an early adopter. Barely 14 months had passed since ...

The White House first got a telephone in 1877. Fifty-two years later, somebody finally thought to put one in the Oval Office. President Rutherford B. Hayes first arranged to have a telephone ...