fireside chat

noun

1. an informal address by a political leader over radio or television, especially as given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt beginning in 1933.

Example Sentences

Gov. Michele Bullock is scheduled to join a fireside chat at a forum in Washington, D.C.

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At a fireside chat held by the Economic Club of New York, Greer said the current average tariff rate with China is here to stay.

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“What an embarrassment,” Newsom told former President Clinton during a live-streamed fireside chat during Climate Week in New York City.

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Murdoch spoke briefly Wednesday at the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference, a fireside chat cut short because of Murdoch’s late arrival in San Francisco thanks to a weather delay.

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During the fireside chat at the conference Farage also praised the embrace of digital assets in the US as "nothing short of fantastic", saying he wanted to make London "one of the major trading centres of the world".

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