Just a week after his inauguration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his first radio address 87 years ago on Thursday to assure a nation reeling from the Great Depression. The radio broadcast, ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Fireside Chats were a series of approximately 30 evening radio addresses delivered between 1933 and 1944. His first address, on March 12, 1933, focused on the banking crisis ...

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 ...

Whatever happened to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s tradition of fireside chats? Frances Gelles | Denver The spread of radio gave Roosevelt the means to have his speeches broadcast into listeners’ ...

FDR fireside chat on U.S. Supreme Court Reform Plan, 1937 (Harris & Ewing photograph, now in the Library of Congress) The president of the United States was speaking to the nation live, on television, ...

March 12 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1912, Juliette Gordon Low organized the first Girl Scouts of America troop in Savannah, Ga. In 1933, U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt made the first of ...

“Roosevelt’s address 87 years ago provided the model future presidents would use to inform the American citizenry, calm national anxieties and establish the crucial importance of a moment in time. The ...

The livestream series will let New Yorkers question Mamdani in real time on Twitch, expanding beyond the early echoes of ...