"Well, Felix, this elects me." The speaker was Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was at home in Albany with his friend and advisor Felix Frankfurter, monitoring radio reports of a political disaster ...

Franklin Roosevelt’s attacks on the gold standard ushered in “the age of inflation” that has now robbed generations of ...

The incumbent, Herbert Hoover, was unpopular to the point that Roosevelt’s campaign strategy was simply not to do anything that would distract from that unpopularity. Roosevelt’s campaign introduced ...

There was a view that Hoover did too little, too late. In contrast to President Hoover, Roosevelt was charismatic and an effective public speaker. He toured the country meeting voters and ...

but it was not enough to rescue the political fortunes of Herbert Hoover. In the 1932 presidential election, he was soundly trounced by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Eight days after his defeat ...

and Herbert C. Hoover’s plans for removing the marines from Haiti and Nicaragua. In 1932, Roosevelt signed the Emergency Relief Construction Act, which provided $2 billion for public works projects ...

He's hardly the first president to claim he represents the people's will—or God's. But he might be the most brazen.

Both Case and WRU students held straw votes in October 1932. Case went for Herbert Hoover (R), with 263 votes to Franklin D. Roosevelt's (D) 105, Norman M. Thomas' (Socialist) 82, and William Z.

Herbert Hoover, born in West Branch, Iowa, was sworn in as the 31st President of the United States on this day in history in ...

President Trump’s tariffs on Canada and Mexico, as well as his exemption of North American trade agreement-protected goods, has led to a hands-off approach from Congress, which has been ...

President Herbert Hoover says ... Before a crowd of 100,000 at the Capitol Plaza in Washington, D.C., Franklin Delano Roosevelt is inaugurated. FDR tells the crowd, "The people of the United ...