Mrs. Herbert Hoover Jr. was dressed in a brown velvet ... police lines at the capitol at 9:30 a.m., two hours before the inaugural ceremonies were to begin. Scores crowded around the entrance ...

In his inaugural address, he confidently declared ... but it was not enough to rescue the political fortunes of Herbert Hoover. In the 1932 presidential election, he was soundly trounced by ...

In fact, Inauguration Day was set as March 4 ... Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s relief action as he and lame-duck Herbert Hoover barely even communicated. In 1937, after FDR was elected to a ...

1933: Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt Like Bush, Hoover would attend just one inauguration as a new president before losing to a Democrat four years later. But Democrat Franklin Roosevelt ...

President Herbert Hoover's inauguration was met with a downpour of rain, a possible bad omen of things to come. "A heavy rain began just before the oath of office was administered, and the Capitol ...

President Herbert Hoover remains the only U.S. president ... for both the baseball and football teams and helped organize the inaugural big game against the University of California, Berkeley.