President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his first "fireside chat" on this day in history, March 12, 1933, to reassure and inform a nation reeling from the effects of the Great Depression. This was the ...

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Whatever happened to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s tradition of fireside chats? Frances Gelles | Denver The spread of radio gave Roosevelt the means to have his speeches broadcast into listeners’ ...

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Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin urged Democrats to tap into the "conversational" tone of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's radio "fireside chats" ahead of the second night of the virtual ...

Eighty-six years ago today — March 12, 1933 — newly inaugurated President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave the first of his famous “fireside chats” to the American public. Over the course of the next 12 ...

(CNN) -- The White House is bringing back weekly addresses from the President directly to the American people, continuing in the tradition of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's fireside chats. "This is ...

Whatever happened to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s tradition of fireside chats? Frances Gelles | Denver The spread of radio gave Roosevelt the means to have his speeches broadcast into listeners’ ...

The White House is bringing back weekly addresses from the President directly to the American people, continuing in the tradition of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s fireside chats. “This is a ...