![]() ![]() ![]() □ Snap polls were overwhelming: A CBS News/YouGov poll found 89% of speech-watchers thought Biden was presidential, 85% approved and 78% said the speech made them feel optimistic about America. "Autocrats will not win the future," Biden said. think that democracy can’t compete in the 21st century with autocracies, because it takes too long to get consensus. He's deadly earnest on becoming the most significant, consequential nation in the world. is "in competition with China and other countries to win the 21st century": We’re at a great inflection point in history. Franklin Delano Roosevelt served as the 32nd President of the United States of America during one of the most tumultuous periods of the countrys history. A successful dynamic will generate the feeling of sitting by a fire and speaking to a good friend. Warning that global strength can wane, Biden said the U.S. Fireside chats are especially popular because of the amicable vibe they convey. Photo: Melina Mara/The Washington Post via AP The great bet is that all this spending won't lead to runaway inflation. MaAddress of President Roosevelt by radio, delivered from the Presidents Study in the White House at 10 PM today.Things that aren’t complicated.īiden wants to spend a phenomenal amount of money - his accomplishments and proposals total $6 trillion - and mobilize the government to touch every corner of American life. And he's focusing on the most tangible stuff - shots in arms, $1,400 stimulus checks.He’s trying to make people feel government in their lives - and feel like it's a life raft, rather than an inconvenient and incompetent mess.That's all I’m asking."Īs Biden's plans come into fuller view, we see the momentous scale: "In another era when our democracy was tested," Biden said, "Franklin Roosevelt reminded us: In America, we do our part.I'm told Biden deliberately echoed the empathetic, quietly impassioned tone of FDR's Fireside Chats on the radio from 1933-44. And he sees the stakes of failing as ceding the next century to the autocrats. Those fireside chats, characterized by a disarming frankness and an informal and conversational tone, represent an unprecedented presidential attempt to.President Biden feels intensely that now is a time for proving that government can still do big things, and make tangible improvements to ordinary people's lives.ĭriving the news: Last night's address to a joint session of Congress, on his 99th day in office, was an argument for liberal, small "d" democratic government - investments, as he put it, that only government can make. ![]()
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