Main Page | See live article | Alphabetical index The Fireside chats were a series of radio broadcasts made by Franklin D. Roosevelt to the population of the United States. The broadcasts started in 1933, and continued until 1944. They dealt with such matters as the great depression, the New Deal, and World War II. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it. This article is from Wikipedia. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.