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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 ...

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Historian and commentator Doris Kearns Goodwin discussed President Franklin Roosevelt's fireside chats and how he communicated with the public during ...

A retired presidential ship inspired artist Constance Hockaday to flip the script of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s fireside chats, just in time for the 2020 election. On March 12, 1933, in the midst of ...

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Melissa Block remembers Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first "fireside chat" as president, which he delivered on March 12, 1933 — 75 years ago Wednesday. Roosevelt had been in office just eight days and ...

President Joe Biden is bringing back weekly presidential addresses in the tradition of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's fireside chats. White House press secretary Jen Psaki told reporters on Friday ...

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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 ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt delivering a Fireside Chat from his study in December of 1943. (FDR Presidential Library & Museum, CC BY 2.0) EDITOR’S NOTE: Each week we cross-post an excerpt from Katrina ...