On April 28, 1935, FDR gave Fireside Chat 7: On the Works Relief Program and Social Security Act. He spent the afternoon writing his speech with advisors onboard Sequoia. “President Roosevelt begins his address by defending the New Deal as a unified program rather than a group of individual laws. He specifically champions the newly passed Works Progress Administration as a necessary program to combat unemployment. The President also introduces the Social Security Act, at the time awaiting action by Congress.”