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  2. Fireside chats - Wikipedia

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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 recession, New Deal initiatives, and the course of ...

  3. Weekly address of the president of the United States

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    Franklin D. Roosevelt was the first U.S. president to deliver such radio addresses. Ronald Reagan revived the practice of delivering a weekly Saturday radio broadcast in 1982, [ 1 ] and his successors all continued the practice until Donald Trump ceased doing so seventeen months into his term.

  4. History of communication by presidents of the United States

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    Franklin Roosevelt was the first president to appear on television. In April 1939, he spoke at the New York World’s Fair over the NBC New York television station W2XBS (the forerunner of WNBC), though these remarks were only seen on a handful of television sets at the fairgrounds, at NBC headquarters at Radio City and on some of the estimated 200 television sets in private homes in the New ...

  5. 1939 in radio - Wikipedia

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    Fireside chat by the President of the United States, Franklin D. Roosevelt, On the European War, advocating U.S. neutrality. Prime Minister of Canada Mackenzie King , in English, and Justice Minister Ernest Lapointe , in French, give an international radio address stating the Dominion's intention to declare war.

  6. Mutual Broadcasting System - Wikipedia

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    President Franklin D. Roosevelt at his home in Hyde Park, New York, December 24, 1943, delivering one of his nationwide radio 'Fireside chats' on the Tehran Conference and Cairo Conference [71] Offscreen, Mutual remained an enterprising broadcaster. In 1940, a program featuring Cedric Foster joined Mutual's respected schedule of news and ...

  7. Did FDR know about the Pearl Harbor attack before it ... - AOL

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    Some claim there is evidence to suggest that President Franklin Roosevelt knew about plans for the attack in advance, and allowed it to happen specifically to justify entering the war.

  8. Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt, first and second terms

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    Relief was urgently needed by tens of millions of unemployed. Recovery meant boosting the economy back to normal. Reform meant long-term fixes of what was wrong, especially with the financial and banking systems. Through Roosevelt's series of radio talks, known as fireside chats, he presented his proposals directly to the American public. [12]

  9. Every ‘The Talk’ Host Through the Years and Why They Left

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    The Talk has been a daytime TV staple since it premiered in 2010. The show first aired with Sara Gilbert, Holly Robinson Peete, Leah Remini, Julie Chen and Sharon Osbourne as cohosts, but that ...