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FDR's Fireside Chat #30 On the Fifth War Loan Drive
Ladies and Gentlemen: All our fighting men overseas today have their appointed stations on the far-flung battlefronts of the world. We at...

Mark Shubert
Jun 3, 20247 min read


FDR's Fireside Chat #29 On the Fall of Rome
My Friends: Yesterday, on June fourth, 1944, Rome fell to American and Allied troops. The first of the Axis capitals is now in our hands....

Mark Shubert
Jun 3, 20247 min read


FDR's Fireside Chat #27 On the Tehran and Cairo Conferences
My Friends: I have recently (just) returned from extensive journeying in the region of the Mediterranean and as far as the borders of...

Mark Shubert
Jun 2, 202413 min read


FDR's Fireside Chat #26 On the Armistice in Italy
My Fellow Americans: Once upon a time, a few years ago, there was a city in our Middle West which was threatened by a destructive flood...

Mark Shubert
May 31, 20246 min read


FDR's Fireside Chat #25 On the Fall of Mussolini
My Fellow Americans: Over a year and a half ago I said this to the Congress: "The militarists in Berlin, and Rome and Tokyo started this...

Mark Shubert
May 30, 202413 min read


Atlantic Charter
AUGUST 14, 1941 The President of the United States of America and the Prime Minister, Mr. Churchill, representing His Majesty's...

Mark Shubert
May 29, 20242 min read


Casablanca Conference 1943
Feb 12, 1943 The decisions reached and the actual plans made at Casablanca were not confined to any one theater of war or to any one...

Mark Shubert
May 29, 20242 min read


FDR's Fireside Chat #24 On the Coal Crisis
My fellow Americans: I am speaking tonight to the American people, and in particular to those of our citizens who are coal miners....

Mark Shubert
May 29, 202410 min read


FDR's Fireside Chat #23 On the Home Front
My fellow Americans: As you know, I have recently come back from a trip of inspection of camps and training stations and war factories....

Mark Shubert
May 28, 202413 min read


FDR's Fireside Chat #22 On Inflation and Progress of the War
My friends: I wish that all Americans could read all the citations for various medals recommended for our soldiers and sailors and...

Mark Shubert
May 27, 202412 min read


FDR's Fireside Chat #21 On Sacrifice
April 28, 1942 My fellow Americans: It is nearly five months since we were attacked at Pearl Harbor. For the two years prior to that...

Mark Shubert
May 25, 202415 min read


FDR's Fireside Chat #20 On the Progress of the War
My fellow Americans: Washington's Birthday is a most appropriate occasion for us to talk with each other about things as they are today...

Mark Shubert
May 25, 202416 min read


FDR's Fireside Chat #19 On the War with Japan
My Fellow Americans: The sudden criminal attacks perpetrated by the Japanese in the Pacific provide the climax of a decade of...

Mark Shubert
May 24, 202411 min read


FDR's Fireside Chat #17 On the Unlimited National Emergency
I am speaking tonight from the White House in the presence of the Governing Board of the Pan American Union, the Canadian Minister, and...

Mark Shubert
May 23, 202417 min read


FDR's Fireside Chat #18 On the Greer Incident
FDR's Fireside Chat #18 On the Greer Incident.

Mark Shubert
May 22, 202412 min read


Nixon's Resignation Speech
Nixon's resignation speech.

Mark Shubert
May 21, 20247 min read


FDR's Speech on the Lend Lease Act
This dinner of the White House Correspondents' Association is unique. It is the first one at which I have made a speech in all these...

Mark Shubert
May 20, 202411 min read


FDR's Fireside Chat #16 Arsenal of Democracy
My friends: This is not a fireside chat on war. It is a talk on national security, because the nub of the whole purpose of your President...

Mark Shubert
May 20, 202415 min read


FDR's Stab in the Back Speech
President Newcomb, my friends of the University of Virginia: I notice by the program that I am asked to address the class of 1940. I...

Mark Shubert
May 19, 20248 min read


FDR's Fireside Chat #15
My friends: At this moment of sadness throughout most of the world, I want to talk with you about a number of subjects that directly...

Mark Shubert
May 19, 202415 min read
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