rosina tucker remembers the hope returning. you remember his saying, "there's nothing to fear but fear itself." he had his fireside talks... and, uh... uh, the people listened to them all over the united states. they made it a point to have nothing to do during those fireside talks. they sort of... it seemed to me a sacred time, uh, as if a father was talking to his children who were afraid. it was in that period of despair that roosevelt did one great thing. he experimented. if this didn't work, try something else. this nation is asking for action and action now! march 1933 was the bottom of the depression. slowly the economy inched upwards. keynes visited washington in 1934 to meet with roosevelt. the meeting was not a success. fdr had such a lack of interest in economics... his interest was not simply zero. it was, if it could be, negative. he was concerned with how things worked, but not analytically. he wanted to have confidence that somebody who was patient could advise him. keynes talked to fdr as though he were a studen