This Ain't Your Camp Counselor's Fireside Chat.
- FDR begins by making sure people are aware this particular address won't be one of those friendly Fireside Chats.
- A president's job is not only to keep his people safe, but make decisions to protect future generations. In this case, FDR is trying to protect American independence.
- Remember that banking crisis, where American industry kinda just rolled to a stop and the entire country went bananas? Yeah—FDR remembers that, too.
- To all the workmen, shopkeepers, farmers, widows and old men—FDR wants you to know this thing going on with Adolf Hitler over in Europe is equally terrifying as the banking crisis, and a very real threat to America.