MSNBCW The Rachel Maddow Show November 14, 2020
So badly. Hoover thought fdr was an actual madman. And back then Inauguration Day was not until march 4th, a holdover from the countrys early days when transportation was not so easy. So president hoover had a whole four months as a lame duck president , and he decided to use them to try to get fdr to abandon the new deal, you know, the plan on which fdr had just won a landslide victory. The journalist Ronald Schaffer writes at the Washington Post this week, quote, at their first postelection facetoface meeting on november 22nd in the red room of the white house, hoover opened the meeting with...