fireside chats
Informal presidential broadcasts
Fireside chats were the radio addresses Franklin D.
Roosevelt delivered to the American public during the Great Depression and World War II.
The name evokes intimacy—a president speaking directly to citizens gathered around their radios as if around a hearth.
The term now applies to any informal, conversational address by a leader or public figure: The CEO held a fireside chat with employees about the company's future.
- New DealDepression-era reform agenda
- conversationExchange of spoken ideas
- presidential speechesFormal talks by national leaders
- national addressOfficial speech to citizens
- Four FreedomsRights from 1941 address
Franklin D. Roosevelt · talks · Roosevelt · Great Depression · informal · radios · radio broadcast · brain trust · Civilian Conservation Corps · banking crisis · wartime leadership · public trust · hearthside · presidents · social security · rural electrification · communications · economic recovery
- conferencesconference, symposium, conferences, keynote, forums
- lectureslecture hall, lecturer, TED Talks, lectern, podium
- oratorypublic speaking, speeches, oration, orations, addresses
- speechesspeech, addresses, historic speeches, lecture, soliloquy
- 1930sNew Deal, Hitler, Nazi Germany, Great Depression, appeasement
- Political Quotesall men are created equal, Gettysburg Address, Declaration of Independence, Emancipation Proclamation, nothing to fear
fireside chatsinaugural address
Leader's first formal oration
press conference · formal address · formal speech · podium speech · royal decree
fireside chatsdemagoguery
Manipulative political rhetoric
rabble-rousing · harangue · tirade · polemic · fear-mongering
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