Fireside Chats
Notes:
-FDR used radio (fireside chats) to reach the country en masse
-outlined what was being done to ease suffering- eased peoples mind- tell them about jobs and such
-once a week
-could communicate with the entire country
-fireside chats- does them by the fire in the white house
(washington- face to fcae, Lincoln- news paper, roosevelt-radio, Kennedy-tv, Obama- internet)
-outlined what was being done to ease suffering- eased peoples mind- tell them about jobs and such
-once a week
-could communicate with the entire country
-fireside chats- does them by the fire in the white house
(washington- face to fcae, Lincoln- news paper, roosevelt-radio, Kennedy-tv, Obama- internet)
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Summary
FDR used the tools he had (the radio) to reach the people and to tell them what his plans in tailed and how he was going to help the people during this time. he often made speeches on the radio once a week from beside the fire, hint the name fireside chats.
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"It is your problem, my friends, your problem no less than it is mine. Together we cannot fail." -Roosevelt (the ned of his first fireside chat)
Subjunctive Question
Would Roosevelt have been as successful as he was if he didn't use the radio to its full potential?