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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the 43 minutes that Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke last week, the little grove of microphones on the desk before him were the ears of the whole world: of 65 millions of U.S. citizens, many more ...

History often repeats itself. In a lifetime, you might expect to glimpse the glimmer of a shooting star, lend an ear to spring’s jovial bird songs, and feel the force of a natural disaster. The tiding ...