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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 ...
A transcript is available from a number of sources including: Wikisource: Roosevelt's Fireside Chat, 29 December 1940; The Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States from the University of Michigan; The American Presidency Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara; Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia
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 ...
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 ...
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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.
Franklin D. Roosevelt - 1937 Franklin D. Roosevelt - 1933 Franklin D. Roosevelt takes the Oath of Office as President of the United States on January 20, 1933 in Washington D.C.