Step 1 : Introduction to the question "Which U.S. President gave "fireside chats" on the radio during the Great Depression?"
On this day in 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his first national radio address—or “fireside chat”—broadcast directly from the White House. At the time, the U.S. was at the lowest point of the Great Depression, with between 25 and 33 percent of the workforce unemployed. The nation was worried, and Roosevelt’s address was designed to ease fears and to inspire confidence in his leadership. Roosevelt went on to deliver 30 more of these “fireside chats”. They reached an astonishing number of American households, 90 percent of which owned a radio at the time.
