One of those days.

[gurdymonkey]

"When the stock market crashed, Franklin D. Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the, you know, the princes of greed. He said, 'Look, here's what happened,'" - Joe Biden.

Joe, baby,  I realize you were only a toddler when President Roosevelt died, but you need a fact checker! (Wanna hire me?)

When the stock market crashed in 1929, FDR was serving as governor of New York. FDR wasn't elected President until 1932. His famous "Fireside Chats" were aired on the radio. Read the text of the first one from March 1933, on the nation's bank crisis here: http://www.mhric.org/fdr/chat1.html

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[firehauke.livejournal.com]

oh wow, even though I can't remember when certain presidents served when, I can at least recall that TVs weren't around much in the 20s!