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 ...

Eighty-one 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 ...

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In March of 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt used the radio to address the people of the United States about the state of the U.S. banking system. In doing so, he taught many about the basics of ...

Financial security for all Americans was weighing heavily on President Franklin Delano Roosevelt 75 years ago. On March 12, 1933, FDR delivered the first of what would become his famous "fireside ...