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A series of informal radio addresses given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the 1930s. In his fireside chats, Roosevelt sought to explain his policies to the American public and to calm fears about the Great Depression.

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How to use fireside chats in a sentence

His Oval Office radio addresses were famously labeled “Fireside Chats” and he called listening citizens “my friends.”
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His fireside chats brought his reassuring “radiogenic” voice to millions of Americans still suffering from the Great Depression.
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Are there robes and fireside chats with goblets of sherry, that sort of thing?No, ha, nothing quite so effete.
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Knowing he needed to sell the New Deal to the American people, Franklin Roosevelt created the dramatic fireside chats.
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On the day before the reorganized banks reopened, he went on the radio for the first of his many Fireside Chats.
Obama's Speech and the Burden of History|Harold Evans|January 20, 2009|DAILY BEAST
We had no opportunity for those pleasant fireside chats which had done so much to make our days endurable in the Atlanta barracks.
Capturing a Locomotive|William Pittenger
Days passed and still the tragic fate of the hapless lovers held a place in fireside chats.
Idle Hour Stories|Eugenia Dunlap Potts