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 incumbent, Herbert Hoover, was unpopular to the point that Roosevelt ... despite the disapproval by many of this break with tradition. Challenges Franklin Roosevelt was elected president in the ...

Running on a progressive platform, Herbert C ... than the use of force. Hoover was an organizational genius who as chief executive practiced features of the modern presidency later associated with his ...

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 ...