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Presidential elections were held in the United States on November 8, 1932. Against the backdrop of the Great Depression, incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover was defeated in a landslide by Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt, the governor of New York and the vice presidential nominee of the 1920 presidential election.
Hoover vs. The Kennedys: The Second Civil War is a four-hour 1987 made-for-television mini-series depicting the political struggles between FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and President John F. Kennedy and Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy .
In Kennedy's portrayal, Hoover's policies foreshadowed those of subsequent president Franklin D. Roosevelt but were insufficient to alleviate the Great Depression's humanitarian crisis. [36] [c] Freedom from Fear emphasizes Roosevelt's leadership. Roosevelt himself predominates as the lead figure and protagonist of Freedom from Fear. [38]
Hoover believed in stimulus spending and encouraged state and local governments, as well as the federal government, to spend heavily on public buildings, roads, bridges—and, most famously, the Hoover Dam on the Colorado River. But with tax revenues falling fast, the states and localities plunged into their own fiscal crises.
In 1934, in response to President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal, Hoover wrote "The Challenge to Liberty." ... Hoover argued that this was a direct threat to an independent judiciary.
The best 10% and worst 10% remain unchanged from their 2018 poll (top five: F. D. Roosevelt, Lincoln, Washington, T. Roosevelt, Jefferson; bottom five: A. Johnson, Buchanan, Trump, Harding, Pierce). 41% of the scholars polled said that if a president were to be added to Mount Rushmore, it should be FDR. 63% believed that the president should be ...
Roosevelt enjoyed support among the traditional Democratic base of Northern Catholics and Southern whites, but his 1936 re-election depended on mobilizing new voters and retaining the votes of those who had been alienated by Hoover. [255] Roosevelt forged a new coalition consisting of city machines, labor unions, blue collar workers, minorities ...
Roosevelt (right) and Hoover ride to the United States Capitol for the inauguration. On the day of the inauguration, Roosevelt and Hoover shared a tense car ride from the White House to the United States Capitol. [8] They would continue to harbor resentments toward each other for the rest of their lives. [42]