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 ...

President FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT: My friends, I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about banking. MELISSA BLOCK, host: So began Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first ...

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 ...

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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 ...

All Franklin Roosevelt’s fireside chats have been “live” stuff, i.e., not transmitted from recordings. Only “canned” Roosevelt the radio audience ever got was that culled from recordings of his ...