Fireside Chat on the Cost of Living and the Progress of the War
Radio address
By: Franklin D. Roosevelt
Date: September 7, 1942
Source: Roosevelt, Franklin D. Fireside Chat on the Cost of Living and the Progress of the War. Radio address delivered on September 7, 1942. Reprinted in The Public Papers and Addresses of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1942 Volume: Humanity on the Defensive. New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers, 1950, 368–72, 374, 376–77.
About the Author: Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945) was born at Hyde Park, New York. Educated at Harvard, Roosevelt was elected to the New York Senate in 1910, and served as assistant secretary of the navy from 1913–1920. After losing a bid for vice president in 1920, Roosevelt contracted polio, leaving his legs permanently paralyzed. Returning to politics, Roosevelt was elected governor of New York in 1928, and he defeated Herbert Hoover for the presidency in 1932. Roosevelt was...
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