During the Roosevelt years. FDR spent time talking to the American people via radio; these became his famous “Fireside Chats.” On Christmas Eve, Roosevelt would do one of his chats and then read Charles Dickens’s  “A Christmas Carol” to his grandchildren. This what he said in 1944, the turning point of World War II: “The … More Plum Pudding & Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s Christmas Message, 1944