Voice of America is an international broadcasting state media
network funded by the federal government of the United States
of America. It is the largest and oldest of the U.S. international broadcasters. VOA produces digital, TV, and radio content in 48 languages, which it distributes to affiliate stations around the
world.

Its targeted and primary audience is non-American outside the
US borders. As of November 2022, its reporting reached 326
million adults per week across all platforms. It is financed by
the U.S. Agency for Global Media after approval by Congress.    

VOA was established in 1942, and on February 24, 1942, the
Foreign Information Service, precursor to the Voice of America,
made its first broadcast from New York City to Europe. 

The VOA charter was signed into law in 1976 by U.S. President
Gerald Ford. It is headquartered in Washington, D.C.

As of 2022, VOA had a weekly worldwide audience of about
326 million (up from 237 million in 2016) and employed 961
staff with an annual budget of $267.5 million.

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Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (1913 – 2006)

Voice of America headquarters.

Louis Armstrong being interviewed in the Voice of America Studio.

Battle Of New Orleans.

Future seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson 
was born in a backwoods region between North and South
Carolina to Irish immigrant parents on March 15, 1767.
 

This colorful and controversial president is pictured on the
$20 bill and was briefly immortalized on the Confederate
$1,000 bill.

 
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Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton married each other
for the first time on March 15, 1964, in Montreal, Canada.

On March 12, 1933, eight days after his inauguration, President
Franklin D. Roosevelt gives his first national radio address—or
“fireside chat”—broadcast directly from the White House.

Roosevelt began that first address simply: “I want to talk for a
few minutes with the people of the United States about banking.”

The banks would be reopening the next day, Roosevelt said, and
he thanked the public for their “fortitude and good temper”
during the “banking holiday.”

General Douglas MacArthur left the Philippines on March 11,
1942, by PT boat during World War II. He was ordered to
leave by President Franklin D. Roosevelt after the Japanese
took control of the Philippines.

Gen. MacArthur (left) with President Franklin D. 
Roosevelt.       
 
        

        
       

Douglas MacArthur (26 January 1880 – 5 April 1964)