On this day in history, Oct. 22, 1928, Republican presidential nominee Herbert Hoover spoke of the "American system of rugged individualism" in a speech at New York's Madison Square Garden ...

In his memoir, "The Memoirs of Herbert Hoover: The Cabinet and the Presidency ... fit is always a problem for Presidents. Once the day's work starts, there is little chance to walk, to ride ...

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 ...