Eisenhower's Emmy
Television applauded President Eisenhower by giving him an Emmy Award after he began televising news conferences in 1955. Truman was the first President to appear on a national broadcast, yet Eisenhower's award for his "substantial impact and extraordinary use of television" recognized that he used TV as the new "fireside chat." Radio had been the way President Franklin Roosevelt had bypassed newspaper reporters and gone directly to the people. In the 1950s, Eisenhower saw that he could do the same with TV. JFK often gets the credit, but Eisenhower was the first to master the medium.
Eisenhower was a big fan of the other new show of '55, the $64,000 Question.
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