Fireside Chats of Franklin Roosevelt

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Opening Fifth War Loan Drive.

On the Fall of Rome.

On the State of the Union.

On the Tehran and Cairo Conferences.

On the Armistice in Italy - (Opening Third War Loan Drive)

On the Fall of Mussolini - (On the Progress of War, and Plans for Peace)

On the Coal Crisis.

Report on the Home Front.

On Inflation and Food Prices, and the Progress of the War

On Sacrifice - (On Our National Economic Policy)

On the Progress of the War.

On the Declaration of War with Japan.

On the Greer Incident - (On Maintaining Freedom of the Seas)

Announcing Unlimited National Emergency.

On the Arsenal of Democracy - (On National Security)

On National Defense.

On the European War.

On Party Primaries.

On Economic Conditions - (On the Recession)

On the Unemployment Census

On New Legislation.

On the Reorganization of the Judiciary - (On Court Packing)

On Farmers and Laborers - (On Drought Conditions)

On the Works Relief Program and Social Security Act

On Government and Capitalism - (On Moving Forward to Greater Freedom and Greater Security)

This one also seems to exist only in a very abridged form, so I recorded the missing parts. Report on Recovery - (Review of the Achievements of the Seventy-third Congress)

This address was recorded, but as far as I could tell, only a very abridged version of it. Since the text of the complete speech survives, I've filled in the missing parts. On the Currency Situation

This address was never recorded, but we do have the transcript, so I recorded it myself. On the Purposes and Foundations of the Recovery Program.

On the New Deal program - (On progress during the first two months)

On the banking crisis.