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 ...

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 ...

Cox chooses 38-year-old Franklin D ... Smith loses to Herbert Hoover, but FDR wins his election and Eleanor Roosevelt becomes a reluctant governor's wife. With the stock market crash of 1929 ...

EXCLUSIVE: If you ask a friend what they know about Herbert Hoover ... New Hampshire Democratic primary. A young Franklin Roosevelt remarked, "[Hoover] is certainly a wonder and I wish we could ...

Franklin D Roosevelt won the 1932 ... become involved in World War Two. Roosevelt won the election, receiving around 23 million votes and winning 42 states. Hoover got around 16 million votes ...

Historians differ widely in evaluating Franklin D. Roosevelt's Harvard career ... Most members of his social class still accepted him. Herbert Burgess, a Fly Club brother, remarked that "his ...