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Education Clip: Pacific Front Radio Address

4m 02s

In the early days of the war, FDR gets on the radio to reassure the nation and encourages everyone to get a map and follow along with him the war’s progress in his Fireside Chats. In his leadership, he understood the power of his persona through mass media and its limitations.

Aired: 09/12/14

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