Monday, June 01, 2020

Bring back the Fireside Chats


Franklin Roosevelt was president through times as tough and tougher as they are today - the Depresion, the New Deal, the NRA, the introduction of Social Security, WWII. And, via the Fireside Chats, he told us what these issues were about and what he was doing about them. He gave 30 of these chats from 1933 to 1944.

The Library of Congress which terms them "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 President Roosevelt and the American people in 1933." Other presidents, including Reagan, have approached very difficult issues in the same way. Why doesn't Trump?

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