With President Donald Trump ’s decision to intervene in the Iran- Israel war, Iran, a country 6,500 miles away from ...

The Waldorf Astoria Hotel has been shunned by presidents since Barack Obama after it was taken over by Chinese owners.

Hoover received 54.8% of the popular vote and all five electoral votes, according to The American Presidency Project. "In addition to being a Catholic, (Smith) was against prohibition," Hanson said.

Among those backing Roosevelt and his big government policies in all four elections was a young Midwesterner named Ronald Reagan, whose family survived the Great Depression in a state of hand-to ...

In the 1932 presidential election, Franklin Delano Roosevelt wiped the floor with his Republican rival, Herbert Hoover. He won the Electoral College 472-59, and bested the incumbent with 57 ...

After Franklin Delano Roosevelt won the election in 1932 and Herbert Hoover became a lame-duck president, many blamed Hoover for the downturn of the economy that would later spur the New Deal, a ...

Florence supported Herbert Hoover’s unsuccessful campaign against FDR in the 1932 presidential election, and was herself defeated for re-election during the Roosevelt re-election landslide (1936).

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 ...

As it happened, Roosevelt as president was no more willing to pay the bonus early than Hoover and Mellon had been. In 1936, Congress overwhelmingly passed a measure to pay the bonus immediately ...

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 ...

Hooverball was invented by Joel T. Boone, the White House physician at the time, shortly after the 1928 election to help keep the president fit. Hoover took a goodwill trip to South America.

Ottawa voters supported Hoover by the fourth-largest margin among Michigan counties. 1932 — Herbert Hoover, Republican: 58.3%; Franklin Roosevelt, Democrat: 38.6% ...