{"id":35065,"date":"2018-12-03T17:32:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-03T21:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=35065"},"modified":"2018-12-05T07:25:44","modified_gmt":"2018-12-05T11:25:44","slug":"photo-shows-that-late-president-bush-kept-a-bedside-shortwave-portable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/photo-shows-that-late-president-bush-kept-a-bedside-shortwave-portable\/","title":{"rendered":"Photo shows that late President Bush kept a bedside shortwave portable"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Photo by White House photographer David Valdez (Click to enlarge image)<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor,\u00a0Robert Sillett, who shares the following regarding late US President George H. W. Bush:<\/p>\n

Firstly, thank you so much for providing such a great service to the shortwave community. Thanks so much!<\/p>\n

I am dropping you a line because of something I noticed in the following article from the Washington Post concerning our late President Bush. If you look in the photo of President Bush (then Vice-President at the time) with his grandchildren, you can see a Sony ICF-2001<\/del> (update: Sony ICF-7600D) in the bookshelf behind him. Given its position, one can assume that he used it regularly.<\/p>\n

[…]Here\u2019s where I found the photo:<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/2018\/national\/amp-stories\/photos-of-george-hw-bush-white-house\/?tid=a_inl_manual<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I agree, Robert. You can tell by the radio’s position that it wasn’t staged for the photo. I understand that President Bush was an avid reader and had a desire to be well-informed about the world around him.\u00a0 No doubt, shortwave radio played a role in that.<\/p>\n

Thank you for sharing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0Robert Sillett, who shares the following regarding late US President George H. W. Bush: Firstly, thank you so much for providing such a great service to the shortwave community. Thanks so much! I am dropping you a line because of something I noticed in the following article from the Washington […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,305,43],"tags":[7456,7457,4082],"class_list":["post-35065","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-shortwave-radio","tag-george-h-w-bush","tag-robert-sillett","tag-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-97z","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5382,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/steven-roberts-cycled-the-us-with-a-sony-icf-2010\/","url_meta":{"origin":35065,"position":0},"title":"Steven Roberts cycled the US with a Sony ICF-2010","author":"Thomas","date":"February 5, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"One of the most fascinating responses I received after posting the story of my buddy\u00a0Vlado's incredible thrift store find\u00a0(a Sony ICF-2010 for just $5) came from Steven Roberts, who told me that, in the 1980s, he cycled across the United States with the Sony ICF-2010 in tow. 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As you\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Articles"","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/articles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"icf2001l","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/icf2001l.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/icf2001l.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/icf2001l.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/icf2001l.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":52425,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/can-you-identify-john-lennons-mystery-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":35065,"position":2},"title":"Can you identify John Lennon’s mystery radio?","author":"Thomas","date":"April 11, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to\u00a0SWLing Post\u00a0reader,\u00a0Robert Yowell, who writes: Hi Thomas - you might recall several years ago I found a photo of a Sony ICF-2001 in the New York studio where John Lennon was recording his final album \u201cDouble Fantasy.\u201d Well I just recently found this photo of John Lennon which\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "News"","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/John-Lennon-Radio-1.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/John-Lennon-Radio-1.jpeg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/John-Lennon-Radio-1.jpeg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/John-Lennon-Radio-1.jpeg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/John-Lennon-Radio-1.jpeg?resize=1050%2C600&ssl=1 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":22222,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/which-is-the-best-sony-icf-2001d2010-or-icf-sw77-the-halfway-score\/","url_meta":{"origin":35065,"position":3},"title":"Which is the best? 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