Fdr Fireside Chat Analysis

Franklin Delano Roosevelt's effectiveness as a public speaker is unquestionable when it comes to his fireside chats. The fireside chats were a series of radio conversations FDR had with the American people throughout his terms in office. His first fireside chat occurred on March 12, 1933, eight days after taking office. FDR addressed a range of topics in these chats, but within his first hundred days he presented topics about his policies and the progress the country was making. Despite only having two fireside chats within his first hundred days, the impact of them was immense because they presented the American people with a leader who displayed care for the American people. It was a time for FDR to speak directly to the people and not to reporters or other parties. In his first fireside chat, FDR addressed the banking crisis the nation faced. In his third day of office, FDR closed all the banks declaring a bank holiday. This worried the American people about the status of their money. Through discussing his reasoning for closing the banks, he eased the minds of the American people. It
The organization of the White House is dependent on the two factors. The first is the president’s ability to create a team and the second is the president’s capability of creating “effective institutional arrangements” (Greenstein). In his first hundred days, Roosevelt’s ability to create a team contributed to his first hundred days succeeding. With a new administration taking over, Washington was full of people with people who were eager to work for the federal government and were filled with confidence; those around at the time state Washington was seized with “a new vitality and sense of purpose” (Cohen 46 - 47). All these people had a desire to help the President’s effort to end the Depression and as with any administration having people to get the job was at the utmost