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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 first used what would become known as fireside chats in 1929 as Governor of New York. [4] His third gubernatorial address—April 3, 1929, on WGY radio—is cited by Roosevelt biographer Frank Freidel as being the first fireside chat. [5] As president he continued the tradition, which he called his fireside chats. The ...

  4. File:FDR Fireside Chat December 24, 1943.jpg - Wikipedia

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    Description: 208-PU-168-G-46: President Franklin D. Roosevelt Broadcasts Christmas Speech. President Franklin D. Roosevelt of the U.S. sits before a battery of microphones in the library of his family home at Hyde Park, New York, as he broadcasts his annual Christmas message to the American people in which he announced the appointments of General Dwight D. Eisenhower as Commander in Chief of ...

  5. Arsenal of Democracy - Wikipedia

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    The "Arsenal of Democracy" quotation from Franklin D. Roosevelt's fireside chat of December 29, 1940, is carved into the stone of the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial. "Arsenal of Democracy" was the central phrase used by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in a radio broadcast on the threat to national security, delivered on December 29, 1940—nearly a year before the United States ...

  6. Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/Fireside Chat 1 On the ...

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    This was the first of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's famous Fireside chats series made during the Great Depression. It discussed the Banking Crisis and its March 3, 1933 bank run. This article adds significantly to the following articles: Fireside chats; Franklin D. Roosevelt; History of the United States (1918–1945) Nominate and support.

  7. Four Freedoms - Wikipedia

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    The Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park is a park designed by the architect Louis Kahn for the south point of Roosevelt Island. [20] The park celebrates the famous speech, and text from the speech is inscribed on a granite wall in the final design of the park.

  8. File:Fireside Chat 1 On the Banking Crisis (March 12, 1933 ...

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  9. Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park - Wikipedia

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    Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) Park (originally named League Island Park) is a park located along the Delaware River in the southernmost point of South Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, comprising some 348 acres (1.41 km 2), about 125 acres (0.51 km 2) of buildings, roadways, pathways for walking, landscaped architecture, and a variety of picnic and recreation areas placed within about 77 acres ...