President Herbert Hoover had just lost the 1932 election by a landslide to Franklin D. Roosevelt. But during a testy transition, Hoover kept trying to pressure the president-elect into fighting ...

In the 1932 presidential election, Democratic New York Governor Franklin Roosevelt unseated incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover in a landslide in both the popular vote and the Electoral ...

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 ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt did something no presidential ... the grip of the Great Depression under Republican President Herbert Hoover, Roosevelt declared: “I pledge you, I pledge myself to a ...

where Franklin D. Roosevelt convalesced from polio in the 1920s and then resumed his political career. In 1932, FDR defeated the incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover, whose presidency ...

2:15 a.m. As President Hoover's special train neared El Paso Sunday the chief executive in a lengthy telegram to Franklin D. Roosevelt invited the president-elect to confer with him at the White ...

In a new Cato Institute briefing paper, St. Lawrence University economist Steven Horwitz sets the record straight about the real economic legacy of President Herbert Hoover: Politicians and ...

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 ...