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11th January 1944: The President's State of the Union address comes as a 'fireside chat' broadcast across the nation

On January 11, 1944, President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered his annual State of the Union Address to the Nation as a Fireside Chat from the White House.

In early 1944 Roosevelt was not a well man. The trip to Cairo to see Churchill and then on to Tehran for the 'Big Three' summit with Stalin had exhausted him. On the return, he had caught influenza, f…