Margaret Hoover weighed in after former President Donald Trump and President Joe Biden recently name-dropped her ...

"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

Then in 1928, Al Smith is nominated for president and FDR is tapped to run for governor of New York. Smith loses to Herbert Hoover, but FDR wins his election and Eleanor Roosevelt becomes a ...

President Herbert Hoover is synonymous with failure ... author of "Winter War: Hoover, Roosevelt, and the First Clash Over the New Deal". Edited by Aidan Lonergan. Produced by Freddy Chick.