1930's Business and the Economy | "On the Bank Crisis"

Radio address

By: Franklin D. Roosevelt

Date: March 12, 1933

Source: Roosevelt, Franklin D. "On the Bank Crisis," Fireside Chat, March 12, 1933. Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum. Available online at http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu/031233.html; website home page: http://www.fdrlibrary.marist.edu (accessed March 17, 2003).

About the Author: Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882–1945) was the thirty-second president of the United States. Born to an old-stock, New York patrician family, Roosevelt was the Democratic vice presidential candidate in 1920. Stricken with polio in 1921, Roosevelt never regained full use of his legs. He was governor of New York between 1928 and 1932. Roosevelt was elected president four times and led the nation through two of the...