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 ...

A young Franklin Roosevelt remarked ... no one viewed the Republican Party, or Herbert Hoover, the same way. He couldn’t end the Depression, and the presidency became the only job he ever ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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.

At the height of the Great Depression, Franklin Roosevelt defeated Herbert Hoover and proclaimed: "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." It was the first of Roosevelt's four ...

Franklin D Roosevelt (FDR) was able to successfully ... Roosevelt campaigned on the failures of the Herbert Hoover administration. He promised recovery with a "New Deal" for the American people.

In 1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected overwhelmingly ... Unlike his predecessor, Herbert Hoover, who felt that the public should support the government and not the other way around ...