Roosevelt grasped the idea of radio's power through his famed "fireside chats" to the American people.

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On March 12, 1933, FDR delivered the first of his Fireside chats.

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Whereas FDR ushered in fireside chats, Obama is tapping into the Twitter Firehose.

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Deloitte Fireside Chats are interactive programs on current issues in financial regulation of interest to the accounting and auditing professions.

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The SEC Historical Society collaborates with Deloitte to broadcast the Fireside Chats.

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His fireside chats were so successful that the term has come to connote all warm, intimate, and informal communications between a leader and citizens.

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During the New Deal, FDR spoke to Americans through fireside chats on the radio to convince citizens that they could regain confidence in their depressed economy and government leaders.

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CloudBeat is a 2-day event starting Wednesday and focused on the Enterprise Cloud market with a series of customer-centric case studies, big-name fireside chats, and deep-dive breakout sessions, providing big-picture perspective as well as concrete, actionable data.

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