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 ...

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 ...

Eighty-three years ago Saturday -March 12, 1933 – newly inaugurated president Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave the first of his famous “fireside chats” to the American public. Over the course of 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 ...

The Hangout dynamics did offer some back-and-forth between participants and the president. The action didn't feel scripted. On the contrary, it felt like people talking over each other, just like a ...