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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. 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 ...

  4. 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 ...

  5. Franklin D. Roosevelt - Wikipedia

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    Through Roosevelt's 30 "fireside chats", he presented his proposals directly to the American public as a series of radio addresses. [151] Energized by his own victory over paralytic illness, he used persistent optimism and activism to renew the national spirit.

  6. Second Bill of Rights - Wikipedia

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    Fireside chat on the State of the Union (January 11, 1944) [9] Roosevelt presented the January 11, 1944, State of the Union address to the public on radio as a fireside chat from the White House: Today I sent my Annual Message to the Congress, as required by the Constitution.

  7. Emergency Banking Act of 1933 - Wikipedia

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    On March 12, the evening before banks began to reopen, FDR gave his first fireside chat, a national radio address explaining the alterations made by the federal government on the banking industry. Due to confidence in FDR and the proposed alterations, Americans returned $1 billion [5] to bank vaults in the following week.

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    1 Fireside Chat 1 On the Banking Crisis (March 12, 1933) Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Toggle the table of contents. Wikipedia: ...

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