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U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt held his first “Fireside Chat” 3-12-1933

FDR Fire side ChatToday in 1933, FDR broadcast his first “Fireside Chat” to discuss the banking crisis. This is the very broadcast:

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One Response to “U.S. President Franklin D Roosevelt held his first “Fireside Chat” 3-12-1933”

  1. Mike Newton Says:
    February 27th, 2011 at 10:56 am

    I just heard FDR’s first Fireside Speech on the banking crisis. He encourages the saving of money in a bank rather than under the mattress. Even though I am listening to him on a computer, I can imagine how it sounded coming over a Philco table model radiol. He certainly had the best voice for inspiring confidence in the America public. His motto “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” is as true today with urban legends and website paranoia as it was then.

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