FDR First Inaugural Address (1933)
Franklin Delano becomes president amidst the Great Depression on 4 March 1933.
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First Fireside Chat (1933)The first of many Fireside Chat broadcasts by Franklin D Roosevelt during the Great Depression. It was broadcast on 12 March 1933. | FDR Opens the Fair (1939)Roosevelt at the opening of the New York World's Fair on 30 April 1939. |