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Two more weeks! I can’t wait!! #Thanksgiving
“I wish you a most successful administration…”
-Herbert Hoover to Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932
On November 8, 1932, FDR won forty-two of the forty-eight states, an electoral vote margin of 472 to 59, and a popular vote of 22.8 million to Hoover’s 15.7 million.
“Although there will continue to be disagreements over the best means to use in pursuing our goals, I want to assure you that you have my complete and whole-hearted support as you take the oath of office this January.”
Telegram of President Ford’s concession message to President-Elect Jimmy Carter following the 1976 Election. 11/3/76.
“It has been my experience in public life that there are few problems which cannot be worked out, if we make a real effort to understand the other fellow’s point of view, and if we try to find a solution on the basis of give-and-take, of fairness to both sides.”
-Harry S. Truman
President Truman at the polls, from the Truman Library.
