Fireside Chats of Franklin Roosevelt: Recent Episodes
Aaron Juliot
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!
Want more? There's more! There were a couple of decades without these personal radio messages from the President, but what you may or may not know, is that 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, these 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!
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On Government and Capitalism - (On Moving Forward to Greater Freedom and Greater Security)
This one also seems to exist only in a very abridged form, so I recorded the missing parts.
Report on Recovery - (Review of the Achievements of the Seventy-third Congress)
This address was recorded, but as far as I could tell, only a very abridged version of it. Since the text of the complete speech survives, I've filled in the missing parts.
On the Currency Situation
This address was never recorded, but we do have the transcript, so I recorded it myself.
On the Purposes and Foundations of the Recovery Program.