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n. (plural of fireside chat English)
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Fireside chats is the term used to describe a series of 30 evening radio conversations (chats) given by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944. Roosevelt spoke with familiarity to millions of Americans about the promulgation of the Emergency Banking Act in response to the banking crisis, the recession, New Deal initiatives, and the course of World War II. On radio, he was able to quell rumors and explain his policies. His tone and demeanor communicated self-assurance during times of despair and uncertainty. Roosevelt was one of radio's greatest communicators, and the fireside chats kept him in high public regard throughout his presidency.
The series of fireside chats was among the first 50 recordings made part of the National Recording Registry of the Library of Congress, which noted it as "an influential series of radio broadcasts in which Roosevelt utilized the media to present his programs and ideas directly to the public and thereby redefined the relationship between the President and the American people."
Usage examples of "fireside chats".
Like Roosevelt's fireside chats and the landing on the moon,' Breland said.
Therefore, in this bad dream we are having, let us assume no government, no orders from Washington, no fireside chats, no reassurances.
I already knew as much from his address at his convention and other televised talks -- his version of FDR's fireside chats.
President Lipscomb leaned toward Grant with the confidential manner he used in his fireside chats to the people.
For all the fireside chats, speeches, newsreels, and millions of newspaper words about him, Franklin Roosevelt remained for Slote an elusive man.