1935-04-28_Fireside-Chat_FDR-about-to-announce-the-WPA-and-Social-Security

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) just before his April 28, 1935 Fireside Chat, his weekly radio talk with the American people. The President is preparing to announce that he has just signed the bills creating Social Security and the WPA, the most important of his administration’s New Deal programs to pull the United States out of the Great Depression. Photo from the Harris & Ewing collection at the Library of Congress.

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) just before his April 28, 1935 Fireside Chat, his weekly radio talk with the American people. The President is preparing to announce that he has just signed the bills creating Social Security and the WPA, the most important of his administration's New Deal programs to pull the United States out of the Great Depression. Photo from the Harris & Ewing collection at the Library of Congress.