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View all Franklin D. Roosevelt speeches April 28, 1942: Fireside Chat 21: On Sacrifice audio icon transcript icon September 7, 1942: Fireside Chat 22: On Inflation and Food Prices audio icon transcript icon
View all Franklin D. Roosevelt speeches June 28, 1934: Fireside Chat 5: On Addressing the Critics transcript icon September 30, 1934: Fireside Chat 6: On Government and Capitalism audio icon transcript icon
View all Franklin D. Roosevelt speeches October 5, 1937: Quarantine Speech audio icon transcript icon October 12, 1937: Fireside Chat 10: On New Legislation audio icon transcript icon
American Rhetoric: Franklin Delano Roosevelt - First Fireside Chat: "The Banking Crisis". F ranklin D elano R oosevelt. First Fireside Chat. delivered 12 March 1933, Washington D.C. Audio mp3 of Address. click for pdf. [AUTHENTICITY CERTIFIED: Text version below transcribed directly from audio.] My friends:
He would use government to relieve hardship and pump life into a collapsed economy. On his first full day in office, FDR confronted his greatest challenge— the banking crisis that threatened to destroy America’s economy. Roosevelt began with a decisive act. Declaring a “bank holiday,” he temporarily closed all the nation’s banks.
View all Franklin D. Roosevelt speeches September 11, 1941: Fireside Chat 18: On The Greer Incident audio icon transcript icon December 8, 1941: Address to Congress Requesting a Declaration of War audio icon transcript icon
View all Franklin D. Roosevelt speeches June 24, 1938: Fireside Chat 13: On Purging the Democratic Party audio icon transcript icon July 8, 1938: Dedication of a Memorial to the Northwest Territory audio icon transcript icon
