Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum

 

Fireside Chats Of Franklin D. Roosevelt

1. On the Bank Crisis.
Sunday, March 12, 1933 [13 mins:42 secs.] WH

2. Outlining the New Deal Program
Sunday, May 7, 1933 [22:42] WH

3. On the Purposes and Foundations of the Recovery Program
Monday, July 24, 1933 [not recorded] WH

4. On the Currency Situation
Sunday, October 22, 1933 [not recorded] WH

5. Review of the Achievements of the Seventy-third Congress
Thursday, June 28, 1934 [not recorded] WH

6. On Moving Forward to Greater Freedom and Greater Security
Sunday, September 30, 1934 [27:20] WH

7. On the Works Relief Program
Sunday, April 28, 1935 [28:08] WH

8. On Drought Conditions
Sunday, September 6, 1936 [26:49] WH

9. On the Reorganization of the Judiciary
Tuesday, March 9, 1937 [35:28] WH

10. On Legislation to be Recommended to the Extraordinary Session of the Congress
Tuesday, October 12, 1937 [27:42] WH

11. On the Unemployment Census
Sunday, November 14, 1937 [14:16] WH

12. On Economic Conditions
Thursday, April 14, 1938 [40:42] WH

13. On Party Primaries
Friday, June 24, 1938 [29:02] WH

14. On the European War
Sunday, September 3, 1939 [11:25] WH

15. On National Defense
Sunday, May 26, 1940 [31:32] WH

16. On National Security
Sunday, December 29, 1940 [36:53] WH

17. Announcing Unlimited National Emergency
Tuesday, May 27, 1941 [44:27] WH
[Listed in Sharon thesis. Not listed as Fireside Chat in PPA or Master Speech file. Broadcast in presence of Governing Board of the Pan American Union.]

18. On Maintaining Freedom of the Seas
Thursday, September 11, 1941 [28:33] WH

19. On the Declaration of War with Japan
Tuesday, December 9, 1941 [26:19] WH

20. On Progress of the War
Monday, February 23, 1942 [36:34] WH

21. On Our National Economic Policy
Tuesday, April 28, 1942 [32:42] WH

22. On Inflation and Progress of the War
Monday, September 7, 1942 [26:56]
[Last Fireside Chat so designated in Master Speech File] HP

23. Report on the Home Front
Monday, October 12, 1942 [29:25] WH

24. On the Coal Crisis
Sunday, May 2, 1943 [21:06] WH

25. On Progress of War and Plans for Peace
Wednesday, July 28, 1943 [29:11] WH

26. Opening Third War Loan Drive
Wednesday, September 8, 1943 [12:38] WH

27. On Teheran and Cairo Conferences
Friday, December 24, 1943 [28:29] HP

28. State of the Union Message to Congress
Tuesday, January 11, 1944 [30:20] WH
[Not listed as Fireside Chat in PPA or Sharon, but Rosenman in Working with Roosevelt says FDR read it over the air as a Fireside Chat that evening]

29. On the Fall of Rome
Saturday, June 5, 1944 [14:36] WH

30. Opening Fifth War Loan Drive
Monday, June 12, 1944 [13:02] WH

WH= White House
HP= Hyde Park

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