Speeches
- The Forgotten Man: April 7, 1932
- Oglethorpe University Address: May 22, 1932
- Presidential Nomination Address: July 2, 1932
- Commonwealth Club Address: September 23, 1932
- Address, August 20, 1932
- Address, September 29, 1932
- Address, October 19, 1932
- Address, Berlin, October 31, 1932
- Address on Long-Range Planning: October 31, 1932
- Inaugural Address: March 4, 1933
- Annual Message to Congress: January 4, 1935
- The Meaning of Progress: November 29, 1935
- Presidential Re-Nomination Address, June 27, 1936
- Address on the Survival of Private Enterprise, October 23, 1936
- A Fair Day’s Pay for a Fair Day’s Work, May 24, 1937
- Address on Constitution Day, September 17, 1937
- Message to Congress on the Concentration of Economic Power, April 29, 1938
- Message to Congress, January 4, 1939
- Third Inaugural Address, January 20, 1941
Transcripts of all 30 Fireside Chats 1933-1945
1. On the Bank Crisis.
Sunday, March 12, 1933 [13 mins:42 secs.] WH
2. Outlining the New Deal Program
Sunday, May 7, 1933 [22:42] WH
3. On the Purposes and Foundations of the Recovery Program
Monday, July 24, 1933 [not recorded] WH
4. On the Currency Situation
Sunday, October 22, 1933 [not recorded] WH
5. Review of the Achievements of the Seventy-third Congress
Thursday, June 28, 1934 [not recorded] WH
6. On Moving Forward to Greater Freedom and Greater Security
Sunday, September 30, 1934 [27:20] WH
7. On the Works Relief Program
Sunday, April 28, 1935 [28:08] WH
8. On Drought Conditions
Sunday, September 6, 1936 [26:49] WH
9. On the Reorganization of the Judiciary
Tuesday, March 9, 1937 [35:28] WH
10. On Legislation to be Recommended to the Extraordinary Session of the Congress
Tuesday, October 12, 1937 [27:42] WH
11. On the Unemployment Census
Sunday, November 14, 1937 [14:16] WH
12. On Economic Conditions
Thursday, April 14, 1938 [40:42] WH
13. On Party Primaries
Friday, June 24, 1938 [29:02] WH
14. On the European War
Sunday, September 3, 1939 [11:25] WH
15. On National Defense
Sunday, May 26, 1940 [31:32] WH
16. On National Security
Sunday, December 29, 1940 [36:53] WH
17. Announcing Unlimited National Emergency
Tuesday, May 27, 1941 [44:27] WH
[Listed in Sharon thesis. Not listed as Fireside Chat in PPA or Master Speech file. Broadcast in presence of Governing Board of the Pan American Union.]
18. On Maintaining Freedom of the Seas
Thursday, September 11, 1941 [28:33] WH
19. On the Declaration of War with Japan
Tuesday, December 9, 1941 [26:19] WH
20. On Progress of the War
Monday, February 23, 1942 [36:34] WH
21. On Our National Economic Policy
Tuesday, April 28, 1942 [32:42] WH
22. On Inflation and Progress of the War
Monday, September 7, 1942 [26:56]
[Last Fireside Chat so designated in Master Speech File] HP
23. Report on the Home Front
Monday, October 12, 1942 [29:25] WH
24. On the Coal Crisis
Sunday, May 2, 1943 [21:06] WH
25. On Progress of War and Plans for Peace
Wednesday, July 28, 1943 [29:11] WH
26. Opening Third War Loan Drive
Wednesday, September 8, 1943 [12:38] WH
27. On Teheran and Cairo Conferences
Friday, December 24, 1943 [28:29] HP
28. State of the Union Message to Congress
Tuesday, January 11, 1944 [30:20] WH
[Not listed as Fireside Chat in PPA or Sharon, but Rosenman in Working with Roosevelt says FDR read it over the air as a Fireside Chat that evening]
29. On the Fall of Rome
Saturday, June 5, 1944 [14:36] WH
30. Opening Fifth War Loan Drive
Monday, June 12, 1944 [13:02] WH
Videos of Speeches
Supplementary Material
How to Overcome Today’s Crisis: A Lesson from 1933 by Matthew Ehret
FDR’s Anti-Colonial Vision for the Post War World: ‘As He Saw It’ Revisited
