RENEE MONTAGNE, host: President Bush plans a speech this week at the US Naval Academy in      Maryland. His subject will be the war on terror, and the talk comes after      members of his own party asked for more information about progress in      Iraq.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, host: This month, the Senate voted to compel the administration to provide      quarterly reports on policy and military operations in Iraq.  And      yesterday, the Republican chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee      made another suggestion.  Senator John Warner of Virginia said the      president could follow the example of another wartime leader.  In the      days before television was widespread, Franklin Delano Roosevelt used his      famous Fireside Chats to explain the war as he saw it over the radio.      Warner is a World War II veteran and speaking on NBC, he said President      Bush could do something similar.</s>Senator JOHN WARNER (Republican, Virginia): I think it would be to      Bush's advantage, it would bring him closer to the people, dispel some of      this concern that, understandably, our people have about the loss of life      and limb, the enormous cost of this war to the American public.</s>STEVE INSKEEP, host: Senator Warner is hoping the president can do more to persuade      an increasingly skeptical public.  A CNN/USA Today/Gallup Poll this month      found that 63 percent of Americans disapproved of the president's      handling of the war.  Just 35 percent approved.
As lawmakers ask for more information from the Bush administration on progress in Iraq, Sen. John Warner (R-VA) suggests that President Bush should follow the lead of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and hold "fireside chats" with Americans. Sen. John Warner (R-VA) speaks on NBC's Meet the Press, Nov. 27, 2005.