Reporter’s Notebook: How a fireside chat set a new standard for presidential leadership

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Late President Franklin D. Roosevelt gave his first fireside chat on this day in 1933 to an audience of approximately 60 million, setting the standard for a leader’s obligation to explain himself. John Dickerson explains.

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