1951: President Truman and the first national televised speech

We are so accustomed to seeing a president on TV these days.   However, it was not until President Truman that we got a nationally televised speech:

On this day in 1951, President Harry S. Truman’s opening speech before a conference in San Francisco is broadcast across the nation, marking the first time a television program was broadcast from coast to coast. 
The speech focused on Truman’s acceptance of a treaty that officially ended America’s post-World War II occupation of Japan.

At the time, Truman was facing challenges in the Korea War as well as domestic issues.

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