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With the invention of the radio Roosevelt was able to use it to his advantage to bring common and even rural people into political awareness. The main effect was Roosevelt was reelected more than any other president.
FDR's Fireside chats were a significant tool he used to communicate with the American people. Through these broadcasts he helped let them know that he was aware of their lack of work, and loss of home and that he was working on programs to help them. Simply put, FDR was able to provide hope where little could be found through these chats.
Roosevelt realized that his appearance at the convention was unusual and unprecedented. He wanted that to be a symbol of how he intended to lead the country if he was chosen to be president. He wanted to offer the hope of new ways of thinking to the American people where Hoover had offered little beyond the same solutions that had not been working to that point.
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communicating with the American people.
It is true that Roosevelt was the first President to communicate directly with the American people, being the first to use this format of 'homely' speeches on the radio. It is also true that these proved to be very effective in explaining the issues of the day and 'selling' his policies to the American public. It is true that the speeches gave an immense boost to the confidence of people that the things that worried them were understood in Washington; and it is also true that the fireside chats contributed much to Roosevelt's high approval ratings.
They were a weekly radio address by FDR. This was in a time before TV, but just about everyone had a radio so FDR used it to talk to the American people.
FDR's informal radio speeches to the people
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His radio addresses were called Fire Side Chats. The radio addresses to the nation, during the Great Depression, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt were called, "Fireside Chats." His "chats" indicated that the President was confident that the US could survive and defeat the Great Depression. They instilled confidence in the government under his leadership. MrV
Roosevelt used fireside chats as a way of communicating with the American people about the war. The chats were broadcast over radio. This worked well for Roosevelt because people liked his voice and because listeners were not reminded of his symptoms of polio.
I think it should be 'fireside chat'. In which case: Between 1933 and 1944, the USA President, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, gave a series of thirty evening informal speeches over the radio, to the American people..
Americans said well we want a better life so lets listen maybe we can get a better life from these fireside chats.
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FDR's radio chats to the American people during WW2 were meant to keep Americans in good spirits & let them know that he, as president, wanted to stay in close touch with Americans