PRESIDENT FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT: 1944 STATE OF THE
UNION ADDRESS (RADIO)
Summary
This radio program is a broadcast of President Franklin D. Roosevelt's State of the Union Address, delivered from the White House in Washington, D.C., on January 11, 1944. After apologizing for being unable to deliver his speech before Congress due to a bout with the flu, Roosevelt warns the nation not to get overconfident regarding the war effort abroad, and requests that they support domestic measures to help create a decent standard of living for all Americans. The president asks that Americans put the national good ahead of selfish interests and partisanship. In a five-point plan he dubs an "economic bill of rights," Roosevelt asks Congress: 1) to simplify taxes and to ensure that a tax is placed on all unreasonable profits; 2) for a continuation of the law for the renogotiation of war contracts; 3) to enact a cost of food law which will set price floors and ceilings to benefit the general public and farmers; 4) for early re-enactment of the Stabilization Statute of October, 1942; and 5) to enact a National Service Law which will prevent strikes for the duration of the war, and will employ the services of all able-bodied adults for work. The president concludes by noting that all Americans have a "solemn obligation under God to serve this nation in its most critical hour."
Details
- NETWORK: N/A
- DATE: January 11, 1944
- RUNNING TIME: 0:28:30
- COLOR/B&W: N/A
- CATALOG ID: R:11423
- GENRE: Radio - Specials
- SUBJECT HEADING: Presidents - Messages; World War II - 1944
- SERIES RUN: N/A
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Franklin D. Roosevelt … Speaker