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...game at home with the people we love.” But it would go all downhill from there.In the third game, the Crimson and Tigers would switch roles. Despite dominating the previous game just moments before, Harvard lost its offensive presence, hitting only .167. Princeton, on the other hand, caught fire and hit an incredible .437. “Their ball control shifted,” Weiss said. “We didn’t switch any matchups, but they got the ball to the setter, so the setter was up in the box and had two options...
...Their first visit after the election was not promising: Roosevelt came for what he thought was a personal call at the White House on Nov. 22, 1932 - only to find Hoover's Treasury Secretary on hand to help the outgoing President deliver a lecture on the importance of the gold standard, the stability of the banking system and the problem of Europe's war debt. When it was over, Hoover judged Roosevelt to be "amiable, pleasant ... very badly informed and of comparably little vision." (See pictures of election drama...
...world would not wait, and as the Inauguration approached, Hoover tried to force Roosevelt's hand: he wrote to enlist his help in calming investors; and he told a colleague that Roosevelt was a "madman" for not listening to him or lifting a finger to forestall a banking crisis, which began in mid-February. It guaranteed that Roosevelt took the oath of office amid such an atmosphere of crisis that Hoover had become the most hated man in America. There were rumors, as he left Washington, that he had been arrested trying to escape aboard Andrew Mellon's yacht with...
...would be 20 years before the Democrats had to hand power back; this time the incumbent President was Harry Truman, looking to ease the transition of his former friend and then President-elect Dwight Eisenhower. This one didn't go well either. Despite the fact that the two leaders had worked together closely during the final days of World War II and in the creation of NATO, the 1952 campaign had strained relations to the breaking point. Truman thought Eisenhower had sold his soul when he wouldn't denounce Joe McCarthy on the stump: "I thought he might make...
...eight years later, when it was Eisenhower's turn to hand over the keys, he was conscious of the price of a bad transition and determined that this one would proceed more smoothly. That was surprising in its own way, since 1960 saw a change not just of party but of generation, from the oldest President in history to the youngest. John F. Kennedy viewed Eisenhower as antique, out of step; he referred to him as "that old a-hole." Eisenhower for his part saw Kennedy as callow and unready; "I will do almost anything to avoid turning my chair...