David T. Beito

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317 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 2 Jun

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He may have won anyway, but certainly it guaranteed the election.

Yeah, it was one of the last high points.

That speech was actually suggested by Orson Welles, interestingly enough.

who thought that that was a great idea.

Okay, it's a lot to talk about there.

Let me start with the whole thing about the Great Depression.

I think in a lot of ways that FDR and Hoover were not that dissimilar.

In fact, they'd been very good friends.

And ideologically, I don't think they were that different.

Hoover really begins, you know, kind of the...

emphasis on the federal, an interventionist federal response to business cycles, you know, creates a lot of agencies and so forth.

So keeping that in mind,

I would say one negative aspect of this that goes against that narrative, perhaps, is FDR's response during the long period.

He used to go from November to March, the interregnum period, after his election.

It isn't until March that the president takes office in 1933.

During that time, Hoover is reaching out to FDR repeatedly saying, you know, let's work together.

Let's cooperate.

And FDR's response is basically, that's not my baby.

That's yours.

And there is no cooperations.

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