[2] In 1958, President Eisenhower in an address to the United Nations proposed monitoring radio broadcasts: I believe that this Assembly should ... consider means for monitoring the radio broadcasts directed across national frontiers in the troubled Near East area.

[3]In the 1960s, President Kennedy to build an international broadcasting arm of the United States to as a way to promote foreign policy and overthrow communism.

[4] In 1976, President Gerald Ford signed the Voice of America charter that established it as the leading branch of US international broadcasting.

[8] In September 2009, the 111th Congress amended the International Broadcasting Act to allow a one-year extension of the operation of Radio Free Asia.

[7] In May 1994, the president announce the continuation of Radio Free Asia after 2009 was dependent on its increased international broadcasting and ability to reach its audience.