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 ...

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 unfolding in Herbert Hoover's ...

Challenges Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in the aftermath of ... His economic plan was not much different than that of the defeated Herbert Hoover. Indeed, he initially advocated a balanced ...

Challenges: Herbert C. Hoover had to manage the nation during the Great Depression ... features of the modern presidency later associated with his successor Franklin D. Roosevelt. Some of Hoover’s ...

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.

Smith loses to Herbert Hoover, but FDR wins his election and ... With his election to the New York State Senate in 1910, Franklin D. Roosevelt sets out to make a name for himself in Albany.

The inauguration is really about swearing in the next president, but first ladies throughout history have stolen the show with their inaugural gowns.

President Herbert Hoover declares that the United States is nearer than ever to a "final triumph over poverty." Veterans march to the White House as the "Bonus Army"; Franklin D. Roosevelt is ...