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Daily Bread for 3.12.13

Good morning.

Tuesday brings afternoon snow showers and a high of thirty-two.

They can rebuild him. They have the technology. It’s just that he’s an alligator:

On this day in 1933, FDR gives his first fireside chat:

….eight days after his inauguration, President Franklin D. Roosevelt gives his first national radio address or “fireside chat,” broadcast directly from the White House.

Roosevelt began that first address simply: “I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about banking.” He went on to explain his recent decision to close the nation’s banks in order to stop a surge in mass withdrawals by panicked investors worried about possible bank failures. The banks would be reopening the next day, Roosevelt said, and he thanked the public for their “fortitude and good temper” during the “banking holiday.”

Google-a-Day asks a history question: “Where had the man, who in 2008 set fire to South Korea’s first National Treasure, set a fire in 2006, for which he was also arrested and charged?”

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