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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 ...
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 ...
A popular government wartime radio show, performed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, was known as "fireside chats". Two of the most famous programs on the radio show were entitled "On National Security" and "On the Declaration of War with Japan". [15] "The Arsenal of Democracy" was a slogan coined by President Roosevelt during his national ...
The address was considered a significant achievement, as all six stations were able to successfully broadcast Coolidge’s speech. Among the most famous and beloved early radio addresses were Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “Fireside Chats,” which he delivered frequently during the Great Depression. His first radio address was delivered on March ...
While there, Butcher coined a term for President Franklin Roosevelt's radio speeches to the American public, used by Robert Trout introducing the president's address on March 12, 1933, and again by Butcher written in a press release, referring to the May 7, 1933 address as a "fireside chat". [2] [3]
My friends: This is not a fireside chat on war. It is a talk on national security; because the nub of the whole purpose of your President is to keep you now, and your children later, and your grandchildren much later, out of a last-ditch war for the preservation of American independence and all the things that American independence means to you and to me and to ours.
On March 28, 1941, President Roosevelt delivered a fireside chat to the nation from the radio room of USS Potomac in which he stated "the time calls for courage and more courage." [13] After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the yacht was considered a potential target and used more cautiously by the president. [12] Inside the wheelhouse of USS Potomac
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born on January 30, 1882, in Hyde Park, New York, to businessman James Roosevelt I and his second wife, Sara Ann Delano. His parents, who were sixth cousins, [ 3 ] came from wealthy, established New York families—the Roosevelts , the Aspinwalls and the Delanos , respectively—and resided at Springwood , a large ...