fireside chats

1. 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 .

Example Sentences

His Oval Office radio addresses were famously labeled “Fireside Chats” and he called listening citizens “my friends.”

From The Daily Beast

His fireside chats brought his reassuring “radiogenic” voice to millions of Americans still suffering from the Great Depression.

From The Daily Beast

Are there robes and fireside chats with goblets of sherry, that sort of thing?No, ha, nothing quite so effete.

From The Daily Beast

Knowing he needed to sell the New Deal to the American people, Franklin Roosevelt created the dramatic fireside chats.

From The Daily Beast

On the day before the reorganized banks reopened, he went on the radio for the first of his many Fireside Chats.

From The 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.

From Project Gutenberg

Days passed and still the tragic fate of the hapless lovers held a place in fireside chats.

From Project Gutenberg