Fireside Chats of Franklin D. Roosevelt

chat #1 1933/03/12
drought 1936/08/29
chat #8 1936/09/06
chat #15 1940/05/26
chat #16 1941/09/11
war speech 1941/12/08
chat #20 1942/02/23
chat #21 1942/04/28
1. On the Bank Crisis, March 12, 1933

2. Outlining the New Deal Program, May 7, 1933

3. On the Purposes and Foundations of the Recovery Program, July 24, 1933

4. On the Currency Situation, October 22, 1933

5. Review of the Achievements of the Seventy-third Congress, June 28, 1934

6. On Moving Forward to Greater Freedom and Greater Security, September 30, 1934

7. On the Works Relief Program, April 28, 1935

8. On Drought Conditions, September 6, 1936

9. On the Reorganization of the Judiciary, March 9, 1937

10. On Legislation to be Recommended to the Extraordinary Session of the Congress, October 12, 193

11. On the Unemployment Census, November 14, 1937

12. On Economic Conditions, April 14, 1938

13. On Party Primaries, June 24, 1938

14. On the European War, September 3, 1939

15. On National Defense, May 26, 1940

16. On National Security, December 29, 1940

17. Announcing Unlimited National Emergency at meeting of Governing Board of the Pan American Union, May 27, 1941

18. On Maintaining Freedom of the Seas, September 11, 1941

19. On the Declaration of War with Japan, December 9, 1941

20. On Progress of the War, February 23, 1942

21. On Our National Economic Policy, April 28, 1942

22. On Inflation and Progress of the War, September 7, 1942

23. Report on the Home Front, October 12, 1942

24. On the Coal Crisis, May 2, 1943

25. On Progress of War and Plans for Peace, July 28, 1943

26. Opening Third War Loan Drive, September 8, 1943

27. On Teheran and Cairo Conferences, December 24, 1943

28. State of the Union Message to Congress, January 11, 1944

29. On the Fall of Rome, June 5, 1944

30. Opening Fifth War Loan Drive, June 12, 1944


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