First Fireside Chat: Compare and Contrast
First Fireside Chat: Compare and Contrast
"Outlining the New Deal Program" (May 7th, 1933, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt)
Two months after FDR first talked to the nation over the radio in "First Fireside Chat," he returned to the airwaves for round two. Continuing with the trend of extremely boring speech names ("Firs...
"Message on the Economy" (November 5th, 1929, by President Herbert Hoover)
Herbert Hoover was president right before Roosevelt, and the Crash of 1929 and beginning of the Great Depression happened on his watch. Yeah; this little kerfuffle didn't exactly earn him a lot of...
"Statement on the Economy" (November 19th, 1929, by President Herbert Hoover)
Not to be confused with "Message on the Economy," Hoover's "Statement on the Economy" (who was in charge of giving these speeches such exciting names?!) comes two weeks later and has a much differe...
"Address on the Program for Economic Recovery" (April 28th, 1981, by President Ronald Reagan)
About fifty years after FDR did his best to deal with the country's economic depression, America went through another one. It's true: history really does repeat itself.It wasn't as severe as the Gr...
"Inaugural Address" (January 20th, 2009, by President Barack Obama)
Let's complete our comparison of "First Fireside Chat" to other presidential speeches with something quite close to us today. President Obama took office in 2009, right as America was suffering the...