Word: chatting
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...after the speech, Presidential Press Secretary Charles Ross told newsmen that the President had received 100 telegrams, mostly favorable. (Franklin Roosevelt used to get 1,000 after every fireside chat.) Congressional mail showed no evidence of public outrage; nobody came banging at doors or shouting over the telephone...
Harry Truman meant his fireside chat to be a success. A man well aware of his limitations, he nevertheless hoped to transcend them. He had reached a turning point in his presidential career; he wanted to round the corner with banners flying...
Harry Truman apparently thought that both Congress and labor had let him down. Like the late Franklin Roosevelt, he now decided to take his troubles and his desires right to the people over the heads of Congress and the pressure groups. This week he would make a fireside chat, follow it up with his State of the Union speech to Congress...
Harry Truman also found time to accept a life membership in the Kansas City Chapter of the National Sojourners, chat with visiting Kiwanians, receive a photograph of himself attending the Washington banquet of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick, and bandy civilities with such characters as Mississippi's Representative Rankin and Missouri's Senator Briggs, who had little to do with matters of state. Full of the Christmas spirit, Harry Truman still liked to see everybody...
...last week that effort ended in failure. The President decided that there was no formula-at least not within what he considers the limits of the democratic process. In a fireside chat he told the nation it would have to solve the problem itself through collective bargaining (see below). Soon he discovered that he was deep in another kind of failure-the nation was remarkably cool toward the kind of self-reliance he advised...