The New York Times on Wheeler as F.C.C. Chairman (May 2013)

The New York Times on Wheeler as F.C.C. Chairman (May 2013)

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From the New York Times, MAY 1, 2013

Telecom Investor Named to Be F.C.C. Chairman

By EDWARD WYATT

WASHINGTON — Tom Wheeler, President Obama’s pick to be the next chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, knows all about the most advanced telecommunications systems — of the 19th century.

In his 2008 book “Mr. Lincoln’s T-Mails: How Abraham Lincoln Used the Telegraph to Win the Civil War,” Mr. Wheeler, an investor in start-up technology and communications companies, documents how Lincoln was an “early adopter” of what has been called “the Victorian Internet.”

Lincoln’s championing and advancement of popular uses of the telegraph are not unlike the challenges Mr. Wheeler is likely to face as chairman of the F.C.C…..

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