Why did President Franklin D. Roosevelt have to build trust with the people when he came into office? What were fireside chats? Why were these effective?

Herman Eberhardt showed an NBC radio microphone from the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, where he is a supervisory curator. The microphone was used when FDR delivered his ...

Melissa Block remembers Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first "fireside chat" as president, which he delivered on March 12, 1933 — 75 years ago Wednesday. Roosevelt had been in office just eight ...

President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his first "fireside chat" on this day in history, March 12, 1933, to reassure and inform a nation reeling from the effects of the Great Depression.

On this day in 1933, a little more than a week after being sworn into office, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the first of his informal radio addresses to millions of fearful Americans ...

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt gave his first fireside chat on March 12, 1933 during the midst of the Great Depression. He used the 14-minute address to explain the banking system.

President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the first of 30 “fireside chats” 82 years ago. In our NewsHour Shares video of the day, we look back 82 years ago, when President Franklin D ...

FDR fireside chat on U.S. Supreme Court Reform Plan, 1937 (Harris & Ewing photograph, now in the Library of Congress) The president of the United States was speaking to the nation live, on ...

On this day in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered the first of his 30 radio addresses that came to be known as "fireside chats." ...

A retired presidential ship inspired artist Constance Hockaday to flip the script of Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s fireside chats, just in time for the 2020 election. On March 12, 1933, in the ...

The White House is bringing back weekly addresses from the President directly to the American people, continuing in the tradition of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s fireside chats.

Melissa Block remembers Franklin Delano Roosevelt's first "fireside chat" as president, which he delivered on March 12, 1933 — 75 years ago Wednesday. Roosevelt had been in office just eight ...