Speaker: Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Title: The Banking Crisis

Date: March 12, 1933

Venue: First Fireside Chat (radio broadcast)

Clip Length: 1 min 10 sec

(Clip courtesy of History & Politics Out Loud)
The Banking Crisis
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Questions

1) Why do you think Roosevelt organized his speech using simple logic rather than dialectical logic? (58, 59)

2) What is Roosevelt’s single, clear, audience-focused thesis? (31, 58)

3) Based on the text of Roosevelt’s radio address, what three subpoints support his thesis? (61)



Page numbers in above parentheses are from Quentin Schultze, An Essential Guide to Public Speaking.
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