Firing Line with Margaret Hoover
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Polling that Andrew Ross Sorkin found while researching "1929" suggests it was President Hoover’s opposition to repealing Prohibition rather than concerns about the economy that doomed his 1932 reelection bid. "[Hoover] could have reversed himself .. and then I wonder whether he would have won."
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