Heard on the Radio: FDR's Fireside Chat & First 100 Days 75 Years Later

On March 12, 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt made the first of his Sunday evening “fireside chats” to the American people. Speaking by radio from the White House, he reported rather informally on the economic problems of the nation and on his actions to deal with them.

In a remarkably timely topic on this "Hidden America" segment, we introduce Herman Eberheardt of the FDR Library in Hyde Park, New York to Left Jab's Mark Walsh.

They talk about FDR as the first media president. They also touch on how FDR dealt with an economic system and a nation in crisis. ("Confronting fear...restoring hope" as the Library describes it".

A special exhibit, "Action, and Action Now" FDR's First 100 Days opened March 4, 2008 at the Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum in Hyde Park, New York.

This major special exhibition marks the seventy-fifth anniversary of Franklin Roosevelt's first inauguration and the beginning of the New Deal. It is an immersive experience, designed to evoke the desperation of the people in the midst of the Great Depression, followed by hope and energy as the nation rebuilds.

The exhibit uses dramatic and historic audio-visuals, as well as rarely-seen documents, photographs, artifacts, and posters drawn from the archives of the Roosevelt Library and Museum. It will remain on display through 2008.

http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/100INTRO.HTML

If you can't hear the segment on XM Satellite Radio (Channel 167, Saturday at 11 am - Sunday at 1 pm - times Eastern), you can catch it as a podcast at the Left Jab website: http://www.leftjabradio.com/