On This Day in Telephone History May 11TH 1967 President Johnson received a gold Trimline® telephone with Touch-Tone® service. He used it to talk with governors, other state officials and telephone people across the country over a special communications network. The call went to 47 states, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. H. I. Romnes, board chairman of AT&T, presented the President with the gold phone to commemorate installation of the 100-millionth phone in the U.S.
