Whatever happened to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s tradition of fireside chats? Frances Gelles | Denver ...

On this day in 1933, a little more than a week after being sworn into office, President Franklin ... adopted by Roosevelt and the press. The president used radio for his fireside chats 31 times ...

On this day in 1933, less than two weeks after being sworn in to office, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered ... messages came to be known as “fireside chats.” In an era before the ...

Historian and commentator Doris Kearns Goodwin discussed President Franklin Roosevelt's fireside chats and how he communicated with the public during the Great Depression. She also discussed how ...

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 microphone was used when FDR delivered his fireside chats. We learned why these ... showed an NBC radio microphone from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, where he ...

In our NewsHour Shares video of the day, we look back 82 years ago, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the first of 30 “fireside chats.” His radio addresses helped to comfort and ...

MELISSA BLOCK, host: So began Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first fireside chat as president delivered March 12th, 1933, 75 years ago today. President Roosevelt had been in office just eight days ...

Presidential historian Doris Kearns Goodwin urged Democrats to tap into the "conversational" tone of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's radio "fireside chats" ahead of the second night of 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 ...