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Are you better off now than you were four years ago?” Donald Trump asked a crowd in North Carolina on his final full day on the campaign trail in November. “And I’ve asked that question so many times.
President Donald Trump has shared his unique takes on past presidents and their portraits while discussing his White House ...
There is a strange and worrying parallel between the breakneck speed at which Donald Trump has operated in the first few ...
Whatever happened to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s tradition of fireside chats? Frances Gelles | Denver The spread of radio gave Roosevelt the means to have his speeches broadcast into ...
Franklin D. Roosevelt In an effort to keep the United States out of war, Roosevelt made the case during a fireside chat on Dec. 29, 1940, that the nation must provide additional support to Great ...
First, let’s look at the details of Trump’s opening gambit. And second, let’s measure his efforts against the man who set the terms in the first place: Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
Trump's first 100 days in office parallel Hitler's in some important ways — but there are still major differences.
If you’re looking for a “podcast” to take your mind off of things, I have a great suggestion: President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “fireside chats.” I know the title makes it sound like ...
Late President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his first fireside chat on this day in 1933 to an audience of approximately 60 million, setting the standard for a leader's obligation to explain himself ...
Roosevelt and Mr. Trump made their appeals by relying on a new medium. Roosevelt did an end run around Republican-leaning newspapers by reaching radio audiences with his fireside chats.
The new expanded public tours will include the Diplomatic Reception Room, where President Franklin D. Roosevelt held his famous fireside chats.
So began on March 12, 1933, the first of about thirty informal "Fireside Chat" addresses that President Franklin D. Roosevelt would deliver over the radio. His ability to communicate over this new ...