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 ...

User-Created Clip November 12, 2019 2007-09-14T20:17:57-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/ef1/20070914201958001_hd.jpgThe Supervisory Archivist at the FDR ...

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 ...

User-Created Clip by Nathan2729 June 12, 2022 2007-12-18T08:03:51-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/48e/20071218080431002_hd.jpgExcerpt from FDR's Fireside Chat on ...

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 ...

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 ...

Barbara Kraft, who teaches American studies at South Albany High, said the planned address reminds her of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's "fireside chats" and could be an opportunity for a class ...

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 ...

As the start of the first 100 days of the Obama administration approaches, more visitors than expected have been making their way to Hyde Park. Not the neighborhood in Chicago, Obama's hometown, but ...