Aug 302024
 
Hotline during Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidency

Hotline during Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidency

Direct telephone communication, nicknamed the Hotline, was completed between the White House and the Kremlin in 1963. Legend called the Hotline a red telephone, but it was neither red nor a telephone. At first a teletype machine was used; then Reagan implemented a fax machine. Presently the Hotline is a secure computer link.