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"The school is the last expenditure upon which America should be willing to economize." Franklin D. Roosevelt
Main Points:
•Outlined what was being done to ease suffering
•Once a week
Summary:
As the nation weathered the darkest years of the Depression, President Roosevelt addressed citizens in evening speeches on the radio. These "fireside chats," thirty in all, continued until 1944.
- The fireside chats were a series of thirty evening radio addresses given by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944.
- On March 12, 1933, President Roosevelt spoke to the nation on the current economic situation caused by the Great Depression.
- Also, in the first fireside chat, Roosevelt explained why so many of the banks had failed, and why he decided to shut them down for a national bank holiday.
- Roosevelt´s fireside chats were radio broadcasts to the nation.
- The image they invoked was of the president sitting by a fire in the living room speaking sincerely to the American people.
•Outlined what was being done to ease suffering
•Once a week
Summary:
As the nation weathered the darkest years of the Depression, President Roosevelt addressed citizens in evening speeches on the radio. These "fireside chats," thirty in all, continued until 1944.