FDR Gave His First Fireside Chat 80 Years Ago Today

Obama may seem like a "hip" man of the people what with his Google+ hangouts and his Reddit AMAs and his talking to the kids over the Twitters, but he's just following in FDRs trailblazing footsteps. Because on March 12, 1933, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt became the very first president to reach the people on a more intimate level—through radio. More »

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