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The fireside chats were a series of evening radio addresses given by Franklin D. Roosevelt, the 32nd President of the United States, between 1933 and 1944. Roosevelt spoke with familiarity to millions of Americans about recovery from the Great Depression, the promulgation of the Emergency Banking Act in response to the banking crisis, the 1936 ...
- Roosevelt’s First Hundred Days
- Addressing The Public
- By The Fireside
As a rising young politician from New York, Franklin D. Roosevelt was stricken with polio in 1921. After being completely paralyzed for a period of time, he remained permanently confined to a wheelchair but did not give up his dreams of a political career. In 1928, he was elected governor of New York, and four years later he won the Democratic nomi...
In combination with the bank holiday, Roosevelt called on Congress to come up with new emergency banking legislation to further aid the ailing financial institutions of America. On March 12, 1933, he took one more important step, delivering a relatively informal address on the banking crisis that would be broadcast over the radio. In that first spe...
Roosevelt was not actually sitting beside a fireplace when he delivered the speeches, but behind a microphone-covered desk in the White House. Reporter Harry Butcher of CBS coined the term “fireside chat” in a press release before one of Roosevelt’s speeches on May 7, 1933. The name stuck, as it perfectly evoked the comforting intent behind Rooseve...
Apr 7, 2020 · Roosevelt went on to deliver around 30 fireside chats over the course of his long presidency, as the nation took on economic recovery, only to be thrust headlong into World War II.
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Roosevelt’s first fireside address came to the American people on March 12, 1933, as the president tried to explain the banking crisis and the government’s response. The actual number of fireside chats is disputed, with scholars counting between 27 and 31 of his radio addresses as this form of communication.
The fireside chats were a series of 31 evening radio addresses given by Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944. Displaying 1 - 27 of 27 Items.
DateTitleMar 12, 1933May 07, 1933Jul 24, 1933Oct 22, 1933Aug 19, 2016 · President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s radio talks connected Americans to the White House in a way no medium of communication had yet allowed. “The president wants to come into your home and sit at your fireside for a little fireside chat,” announced Robert Trout on the airwaves of CBS in March 1933.
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Mar 12, 2015 · But the speeches, which ran anywhere from 11 minutes to more than 40 — depending on the speech itself and the number of “persuasive pauses,” per TIME — gave Roosevelt a chance to explain ...
