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During the depression President Franklin Roosevelt released numerous radio addresses including the famous “We have nothing to fear but fear itself” speech.
The owner of the Grand Hotel built a special Presidential Suite and let word get out that FDR was going to make a radio address from that very room, garnering lots of free publicity and causing considerable excitement.
But the President never arrived!