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The fireside chats attracted more listeners than the most popular radio shows, which were heard by 30 to 35 percent of the radio audience. Roosevelt's fireside chat of December 29, 1940 was heard by 59 percent of radio listeners. His address of May 27, 1941, was heard by 70 percent of the radio audience. [9]: 240.
- 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...
Fireside chats reinforced the importance of broadcast media and the use of common, everyday language when addressing the American people. Roosevelt understood the importance of radio as a medium and first used it to pressure the New York state legislature during his governorship from 1928 to 1932.
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, 1933Mar 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...
Aug 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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Fireside Chats Of Franklin D. Roosevelt. 1. On the Bank Crisis. Sunday, March 12, 1933 [13 mins:42 secs.] WH. 2. Outlining the New Deal Program. Sunday, May 7, 1933 [22:42] WH. 3. On the Purposes and Foundations of the Recovery Program. Monday, July 24, 1933 [not recorded] WH. 4. On the Currency Situation.
