Obama may seem like a articulatio coxae military man of the hoi polloi what with his Google+ hangouts and his Reddit AMAs and his speak to the kids over the Twitters and whatnot , but he ’s really just follow in FDR ’s trailblazing footsteps . Because on March 12 , 1933 , President Franklin Delano Roosevelt became the very first president to achieve the people on a more intimate degree — through receiving set .
Broadcast from the White House , the talks were mean to reassure an America that was suffering at the hands of the Great Depression after World War I. Never before had Americans had such a direct line of communication with the President — even a one - sided one . And specially with FDR ’s warm , personable nature , the broadcasts work .
you may listen to his first schmoose of 30 above , which focused on banking and financial insecurity , a major concern for nearly everyone at the time . In it , he reassures the world that the banking company had to close to prevent muckle withdrawals , which would have trounce the bank and any real promise of recover from their economical tumult .
These fireside confabulation were a monumental success , but it ’s hard not to inquire how he ’d have fare on Reddit . luckily for FDR , he never had to find out . [ Geekosystem ]
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