On March 12, the 71st anniversary of President Franklin Roosevelt's celebrated "Fireside Chats" on radio, visiting professor Norman Corwin told NPR's "Day to Day" that the president was a master of the medium. "His 'Fireside Chats' were not just friendly neighborhood get-togethers. They were substantive," Corwin said. "The choice of that term 'Fireside Chat' is an indication of how shrewdly he used the medium. It was not 'Fireside Addresses,' it was not a press conference, it was nothing but a chat, which invoked the sense of a small group of people sitting around a radio."
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