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There's another fascinating anachronism in there: > The Congressional Record would not be mailable, he said, "if it contained in print what Senators think of the dial telephone system." "Not being mailable" is probably a reference to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_laws https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comstock_laws The idea of being unable to send "obscene" mail, even private correspondence, is hard to imagine compared to our modern understanding of free speech.