Fireside chats

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The Fireside Chats were a series of 30 evening radio talks given by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt during his administration, between 1933 and 1944.

In an attempt to give Americans a feeling of more pride and hope in their country during the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt gave evening radio talks to the American public. These chats explained New Deal programs and gave people a sense of hope and security during difficult times. Roosevelt needed the American people to understand why he was doing the things he was doing and how his policies and government programs would eventually help the American economy and lift the shadow of the Depression.

During World War II, the Great Depression wound down but Roosevelt continued giving Fireside Chats, explaining major wartime policies to the American people.

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Chronological List of FDR's Fireside Chats

On the Bank Crisis - Sunday, March 12, 1933
Outlining the New Deal Program - Sunday, May 7, 1933
On the Purposes and Foundations of the Recovery Program - Monday, July 24, 1933
On the Currency Situation - Sunday, October 22, 1933
Review of the Achievements of the Seventy-third Congress - Thursday, June 28, 1934
On Moving Forward to Greater Freedom and Greater Security - Sunday, September 30, 1934
On the Works Relief Program - Sunday, April 28, 1935
On Drought Conditions - Sunday, September 6, 1936
On the Reorganization of the Judiciary - Tuesday, March 9, 1937
On Legislation to be Recommended to the Extraordinary Session of the Congress - Tuesday, October 12, 1937
On the Unemployment Census - Sunday, November 14, 1937
On Economic Conditions - Thursday, April 14, 1938
On Party Primaries - Friday, June 24, 1939
On the European War - Sunday, September 3, 1939
On National Defense - Sunday, May 26, 1940
On National Security - Sunday, September 29, 1940
Announcing Unlimited National Emergency - Tuesday, May 27, 1941
On Maintaining Freedom of the Seas - Thursday, September 11, 1941
On the Declaration of War with Japan - Tuesday, December 9, 1941
On Progress of the War - Monday, February 23, 1942
On Our National Economic Policy - Tuesday, April 28, 1942
On Inflation and Progress of the War - Monday, September 7, 1942
Report on the Home Front - Monday, October 12, 1942
On the Coal Crisis - Sunday, May 2, 1943
On Progress of War and Plans for Peace - Wednesday, July 28, 1943
Opening Third War Loan Drive - Wednesday, September 8, 1943
On Teheran and Cairo Conferences - Friday, December 24, 1943
State of the Union Message to Congress - Tuesday, January 11, 1944
On the Fall of Rome - Monday, June 5, 1944
Opening Fifth War Loan Drive - Monday, June 12, 1944

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External links

Complete Text of all 30 Fireside Chats (http://www.mhric.org/fdr/)
Museum of Broadcast Communications entry on the Fireside Chats (http://www.museum.tv/mbcfdr.shtml)
The New Deal Network (http://newdeal.feri.org/)
Miller Center of Public Affairs (http://millercenter.virginia.edu/scripps/diglibrary/prezspeeches/roosevelt/) has most of the Fireside Chats in mp3 and text format
Vincent Voice Library at Michigan State University (http://vvl.lib.msu.edu/showfindingaid.cfm?findaidid=RooseveltFD) has many Roosevelt speeches in mp3 format

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Fireside chats

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Chronological List of FDR's Fireside Chats

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