Fireside Chats of Franklin Roosevelt

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt's complete fireside chats. FDR gave these occasional talks throughout his presidency, from 1933 to 1944, regarding the Great Depression, World War II, and a handful of other topics. It's not always easy to find these in their complete form, and a few were never recorded at all. However, the text exists, so I've gone ahead and recorded the missing parts myself. So here they are in their entirety. Hope you enjoy!

  1. 04/30/2023

    Beyond 1944 - The Presidential Radio Address

    Want more? There's more! There were a couple of decades without these personal radio messages from the President, until Ronald Reagan revived the idea in the early 1980's, directly inspired by Roosevelt's Fireside Chats. Every president since has continued the tradition in some form. Unfortunately, they haven't always been widely heard, or easily accessible. So we're putting them all together in one place, in podcast form. It's called "The Presidential Radio Address," and you can find it on most podcast platforms. Releasing daily until we catch up to the present day. Go check it out, and subscribe. Have fun, and enjoy learning! Listen here, at: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/presidentialradio ...Or of course, on Apple, Spotify, and most other podcast platforms.

  2. 02/27/2023

    Franklin Roosevelt - 1944-6-12 (Fireside Chat #30)

    Opening Fifth War Loan Drive.

  3. 02/26/2023

    Franklin Roosevelt - 1944-6-5 (Fireside Chat #29)

    On the Fall of Rome.

  4. 02/25/2023

    Franklin Roosevelt - 1944-1-11 (Fireside Chat #28)

    On the State of the Union.

  5. 02/24/2023

    Franklin Roosevelt - 1943-12-24 (Fireside Chat #27)

    On the Tehran and Cairo Conferences.

  6. 02/23/2023

    Franklin Roosevelt - 1943-9-8 (Fireside Chat #26)

    On the Armistice in Italy - (Opening Third War Loan Drive)

  7. 02/22/2023

    Franklin Roosevelt - 1943-7-28 (Fireside Chat #25)

    On the Fall of Mussolini - (On the Progress of War, and Plans for Peace)

  8. 02/21/2023

    Franklin Roosevelt - 1943-5-2 (Fireside Chat #24)

    On the Coal Crisis.

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Franklin Delano Roosevelt's complete fireside chats. FDR gave these occasional talks throughout his presidency, from 1933 to 1944, regarding the Great Depression, World War II, and a handful of other topics. It's not always easy to find these in their complete form, and a few were never recorded at all. However, the text exists, so I've gone ahead and recorded the missing parts myself. So here they are in their entirety. Hope you enjoy!

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