Fireside chats.

Examples of Fireside chats. in the following topics:

• The "Arsenal of Democracy"

  • This video provides pictures of FDR as well as his fireside chat outlining his plan for the US to be the "arsenal of democracy"

• Popular Culture

  • President Franklin Delano Roosevelt informed about and advocated for New Deal policies in his fairly regular "Fireside chats."

• Opposition from the Courts

  • The legislation was unveiled on February 5, 1937 and was the subject, on March 9, 1937, of one of Roosevelt's Fireside chats.

• Commander-in-Chief

  • Roosevelt, on the domestic front, used his fireside chats and the press to explain and justify his difficult wartime decisions abroad.

• FDR's Third Term

  • On December 29, 1940, he delivered his Arsenal of Democracy fireside chat, in which he made the case for involvement in the war directly to the American people.

• Banking and Finance Reform

  • In one of his first Fireside Chats, he explained in simple terms the causes of the banking crisis, the government's proposed solution, and what the population could do to help.

• The Roosevelt Administration

  • Through his use of the new medium of radio and regular "fireside chats," he also created a personal bond with American citizens, many of whom cherished their president.

• Roosevelt's Second Term

  • In one of his "fireside chats," he said that America should be the "Arsenal of Democracy. " On September 2, 1940, Roosevelt openly defied the Neutrality Acts by passing the Destroyers for Bases Agreement, which, in exchange for military base rights in the British Caribbean Islands, gave 50 WWI American destroyers to Britain.

• Court Packing

  • A month after the introduction of the proposal, Roosevelt made it the subject of his "fireside chat."

• Political Critiques of the New Deal

  • In 1934, Roosevelt defended himself against his critics and attacked them in his "fireside chat" radio broadcast: