President Herbert Hoover
On the night of March 4, 1929, as the festivities of Inauguration Day faded and Washington’s elite drifted from ballroom to ballroom, Herbert Clark Hoover sat for a quiet moment in the Red Room…
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Interwar and New Deal
This group covers the interwar and New Deal eras, including economic crisis, federal reform, and the changing role of the presidency.
President Calvin Coolidge
In the summer of 1923, a small, spare bedroom in a Vermont farmhouse filled with the soft, uneven glow of lamplight. Outside, the village of Plymouth Notch slept under a sky pricked with stars.…
President Warren G. Harding
On a humid July evening in 1921, the new President of the United States leaned back in the upholstered seat of a White House car rolling slowly up Pennsylvania Avenue. Warren Gamaliel Harding had…
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
On a gray March afternoon in 1933, as a cold rain fell on Washington and banks failed across the country in a kind of slow-motion collapse, Franklin Delano Roosevelt rode in an open car…