Fireside+Chats

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Over View Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the first president of the United States of America to use the radio for mass political reasons. Once a week Roosevelt would sit down and talk to the people of the U.S.A. through his Fireside Chats. The people would gather around their radios and listen religiously to what their president had to say. Roosevelt could explain, on a more relatable level to his people, the problems plaguing their country. He assured the people of many different things, such as the renewed banks, his new deal, currency, droughts, National defence and security and World War II. This is a reason to Roosevelt’s popularity as president.

Results During World War II other leaders used these same tactics. Adolf Hitler rallied his Nazi’s and the Germans over public broadcasts during his rein. The British president Winston Churchill followed in suit as he to spoke to his people over the radio. This was a way of mass propaganda as they could speak directly to their people about what was happening. Easily slipping in their comments and ideas about the enemy and the war. Over the years different presidents of the United States have followed in Roosevelt’s footsteps. Saturday Radio broadcast are a continuous use of the political leaders. Obama is the first to offer these chats in visual form as well as radio, these are available on whitehouse.gov and YouTube. This form of public access has become a popular way of communication between a country’s leader and citizens.

Dates and Topics of the Fireside Chats
 * 1) //[|On the Bank Crisis]// - Sunday, March 12, 1933
 * 2) //[|Outlining the New Deal Program]// - Sunday, May 7, 1933
 * 3) //[|On the Purposes and Foundations of the Recovery Program]// - Monday, July 24, 1933
 * 4) //[|On the Currency Situation]// - Sunday, October 22, 1933
 * 5) //[|Review of the Achievements of the Seventy-third Congress]// - Thursday, June 28, 1934
 * 6) //[|On Moving Forward to Greater Freedom and Greater Security]// - Sunday, September 30, 1934
 * 7) [|//On the Works Relief Program//]- Sunday, April 28, 1935
 * 8) //[|On Drought Conditions]// - Sunday, September 6, 1936
 * 9) //[|On the Reorganization of the Judiciary]// - Tuesday, March 9, 1937
 * 10) [|//On Legislation to be Recommended to the Extraordinary Session of the Congress//]- Tuesday, October 12, 1937
 * 11) //[|On the Unemployment Census]// - Sunday, November 14, 1937
 * 12) //[|On Economic Conditions]// - Thursday, April 14, 1938
 * 13) //[|On Party Primaries]// - Friday, June 24, 1938
 * 14) //[|On the European War]// - Sunday, September 3, 1939
 * 15) //[|On National Defense]// - Sunday, May 26, 1940
 * 16) //[|On National Security]// - Sunday, December 29, 1940
 * 17) //[|Announcing Unlimited National Emergency]// - Tuesday, May 27, 1941 (the longest fireside __#|chat__)
 * 18) //[|On Maintaining Freedom of the Seas]// - Thursday, September 11, 1941 media type="youtube" key="n5LKtzpWNB8" height="295" width="394" align="right"
 * 19) //[|On the Declaration of War with Japan]// - Tuesday, December 9, 1941
 * 20) //[|On Progress of the War]// - Monday, February 23, 1942
 * 21) [|//On Our National Economic Policy//]- Tuesday, April 28, 1942
 * 22) [|//On Inflation and Progress of the War//]- Monday, September 7, 1942
 * 23) [|//Report on the Home Front//]- Monday, October 12, 1942
 * 24) //[|On the Coal Crisis]// - Sunday, May 2, 1943
 * 25) //[|On Progress of War and Plans for Peace]// - Wednesday, July 28, 1943
 * 26) [|//Opening Third War Loan Drive//]- Wednesday, September 8, 1943
 * 27) //[|On Tehran and Cairo Conferences]// - Friday, December 24, 1943
 * 28) [|//State of the Union Message to Congress//]- Tuesday, January 11, 1944
 * 29) [|//On the Fall of Rome//]- Monday, June 5, 1944
 * 30) //[|Opening Fifth War Loan Drive]// - Monday, June 12, 1944