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FDR’s 1941 Fireside Chat: How a President Prepared America for Crisis
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9:45Now PlayingIn 1941, Franklin D. Roosevelt was speaking to an America confronting a rapidly changing and increasingly dangerous world.
But FDR wasn’t simply delivering another presidential address. Through his fireside chats, Roosevelt pioneered a remarkably direct form of political communication—speaking over the heads of institutions and intermediaries and directly into Americans’ living rooms.
Before presenting the complete, unedited fireside chat, Lincoln Square examines the events shaping Roosevelt’s address, his extraordinary use of radio, and the deliberately conversational rhetoric that helped him build public confidence during one of the most consequential periods in American history.
It’s also a reminder of what presidential communication can look like when its purpose is to explain a crisis rather than exploit one.
In this program:
• The events of 1941 shaping Roosevelt’s address
• How FDR transformed presidential communication through radio
• The rhetorical strategy behind the fireside chats
• Roosevelt’s intimate, conversational speaking style
• The complete historic address, unedited
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