Journalist Robert Trout coined the phrase ''fireside chat'' to describe President Franklin D. Roosevelt's frequent radio broadcasts. watch
First, as the President endorses a Constitutional amendment to protect victims' rights, Laurence Tribe of Harvard and attorney Gerald Lefcourt debate the pros and cons of this issue. Then, journalists Stanley Cloud, and Lynne Olson, Richard C. Hottelet, and another CBS correspondent, Robert Trout, discuss Edward R. Murrow, an anchor who assembled a team of reporters for CBS that took radio and news to another level. Finally, producer/directors R. J. Cutler and Davin Van Taylor and political strategist Mark Goodin talk about Cutler and Taylor's new film, A Perfect Candidate, a documentary about the controversial 1994 Virginia Senate race between Oliver North and Chuck Robb. watch
