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Radio and television have introduced the nation to the fireside chat: dignitaries who sit down before a fireplace, and there, in a more or less person-to-person manner, address the listeners. The intention, of course, is that each hearer will feel it is a personal message on an important mater. Franklin Delano Roosevelt had fireside chats, via radio, when he was president. Later, Jimmy Carter did the same thing, only by television. Even Billy Graham on his Christmas special has, from time-to-time, sat by the fire and talked to us.