Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!decwrl!hayes.fai.alaska.edu!accuvax.nwu.edu!nucsrl!telecom-request From: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (peter da silva) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: White House Phone Trivia (Was: Touchtone History) Message-ID: <9871@accuvax.nwu.edu> Date: 17 Jul 90 20:40:17 GMT Sender: news@accuvax.nwu.edu Reply-To: peter@ficc.ferranti.com (Peter da Silva) Organization: Xenix Support, FICC Lines: 23 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 10, Issue 496, Message 4 of 10 In article <9761@accuvax.nwu.edu> 0004133373@mcimail.com (Donald E. Kimberlin) writes: > >The burning question that Telecom readers want answered is: Why > >doesn't the President's office have a nice little Merlin (R) or neat > >IDSN set ??? > The answer may range from the sublime to the ridiculous, Roger. It > might be: (1-4 omitted) 5) Each department and agency that has a reason to have a line into the President's office insists on having it's own phone. This is somewhat reasonable for the DoD with their own network. I suspect that some countries might have their own access to the President for political reasons. Peter da Silva. `-_-' +1 713 274 5180.