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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Eighty-three years ago Saturday -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 ...

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2014-02-17T07:52:45-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/c9e/20140217075306001_hd.jpgTevi Troy compares FDR's mastery of 'fireside chats' to Obama's use of Twitter ...

That’s by far the most common refrain actor/writer James Gooden has heard in the years he has been performing “The Fireside Chats with FDR,” which will be featured this weekend for three performances ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt led the country through a devastating depression, laid the groundwork for today’s worker protections and modern Social Security and then saw the U.S. through World War ...

At a harrowing national moment, Franklin D. Roosevelt commandeered the young airwaves for a "fireside chat" with the American people — a candid talk about big troubles and how to fix them. He was ...

I remember as a boy a president interested in the People. Now I see a president interested in himself.