Chapter 532 The dust has settled(1/2)
Stimulated by the work information, the vote results are imagined! President Hoover's unquestioned defeat, but did Hoover give up?! Obviously not!
Hoover and their cabinet were indeed struggling to death, and in despair they began to use any means.
The Minister of Agriculture cursed Roosevelt, saying he was a "typical fraud propagandist". The Secretary of the Navy predicted that if Roosevelt was elected, "there would be a life of 100 million people who were not safe!"
Hoover shouted: "Comrades! Where will our country go in the next 100 years? The key is to adhere to American traditions or make new tricks." Hoover's chest could not be lifted, the wrinkles around his eyes became deeper, and the lines on the corners of his mouth were thicker.
He is no longer the president who can convince people with bold words. On the contrary, people think that he is the one he says, all nonsense, wrong words, empty words, lies...
But Hoover still did not give up! On his last broadcast, he warned voters not to believe in "the gods who disguise themselves and can do everything." William Allen White pointed out that Hoover's voice was "deep and wailing in despair." Hoover's speech was "empty, desperate wailing."
But Roosevelt said to the audience on the radio for the last time before the election: "You may not all agree with my opinion, but you are all very nice to me."
"As long as we all unite, we can tie together and lift us out of the mud pit of the Great Depression!"
But no matter what they said, the final decisive battle is coming! When the elections for electors in each state end, the time to finally decide the president of the United States finally comes!
On the night of the election, Roosevelt wore a dark blue vest and a college student sorority membership seal, shining, sitting at the Democratic headquarters of the Billtimore Hotel in New York City, waiting nervously for the result.
Unlike everyone, Tu Qianjun, who stayed at the Democratic Party headquarters with Roosevelt, was not nervous at all. He looked at Roosevelt with a smile and said softly: "Brother Ruici, believe me! You will definitely win!"
Sure enough, after the election began, the entire Democratic Party kept coming! As the news continued to come, cheers came from the Democratic Party headquarters! Roosevelt laughed and thanked everyone for their congratulations!
Unlike Roosevelt, Hoover and others who stayed at the Republican headquarters were filled with miserable mist. Roosevelt won votes from 42 states out of 48 states!
Only Connecticut, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Delaware and Pennsylvania, Roosevelt won a total of 472 electoral votes! And Hoover, a former president who was ridiculed by Time magazine, received only 59 votes!
Since Lincoln defeated McClellan by 212 votes to 21, no one in the election history of the two parties has ever won such a huge victory!
"Why is this happening..." Hoover asked in a rude manner at the Republican headquarters, looking at the ceiling. He seemed to be talking to himself and asking other Republicans around him helplessly. But no one could answer his questions.
At 17 a.m., Hoover admitted to failure.
"Ao~~" The entire Democratic Party Department cheered! Everyone threw out the documents in their hands and hugged each other warmly! After several months of hard work, they finally saw the results! Countless people in the Party Department cheered loudly!
The boy's Roosevelt's think tank Louis Howe rushed out of the party headquarters and went home to get a bottle of wine and then hurried back!
"Gentlemen! For our victory! For our president! I suggest we have a drink!" As he said that, he happily poured wine among everyone present! Some people looked at the bottle carefully, good guy! This is a bottle of sherry that has been treasured for 20 years!
That night, three babies were born at Beth Al Hospital in Brooklyn. Their parents all borrowed the name of Roosevelt, Franklin Delano Mayblan, Franklin Delano Finkelstein, and Franklin Delano Larkin.
After cheering, everyone smiled and slowly left the party headquarters with excitement of victory. Tu Qianjun rushed towards Roosevelt's home in the same car as Roosevelt.
In the car, Roosevelt's face was a little haggard, with fatigue, excitement and a hint of confusion in his expression.
"Meng Ben, you know that before my legs and feet were not well, I only worry about one thing in my life, that is, a fire. But tonight, I seemed to be worried about something else." ┖的未发的有发的在线 whispered to Tu Qianjun.
Tu Qianjun looked at the newly promoted US president and asked him softly with a smile: "Brother Ruici, what are you worried about?"
"I'm worried that I can't do the presidential job." Roosevelt seemed to have lost his confidence during the campaign and lowered his head and whispered. Tu Qianjun looked at Roosevelt and couldn't help but sigh deeply.
It’s not that Roosevelt is worried. In fact, the situation in the whole of the United States is really bad now! We can even describe it as a word like close to collapse!
Throughout the early 1930s, especially during the months when the 72nd Congress held its final series of meetings, the pace of hungry demonstrations was heard across the country. 35,000 people filled the Federal Square in New York and listened to the people who spoke.
In Oklahoma, Minneapolis and St. Paul, crowds of people broke into grocery stores and meat markets and snatched up everything on the shelves.
Most people just secretly feel unbearable, but more and more people are starting to gather everywhere to take violent actions.
4,000 people occupied the state capitol building in Lincoln, Nebraska, and 5,000 people occupied the ten-story city building in Seattle. The bourgeois institutions in the entire United States are in danger! The number of suicides tripled that winter!
5,000 unbearable Chicago teachers broke into the downtown bank. As the retired soldiers became more and more familiar with the tune of "Internationale", the tune of the song gradually spread throughout the United States.
The concept of system, power and private property have shown signs of collapse. Some people engage in tax resistance and some people illegally mine coal seams owned by companies. These are all ominous signs.
There are more and more such things to grow vegetables in the open space without the owner's permission; in the city of Detroit, where the relief business has been completely stopped, there are also scattered and purposeless riots; these are also very bad.
Residents in some areas were moved away in a flash. Key West, Florida, was already bankrupt. The Health Department had no funds and the streets were piled with garbage. Hungry people everywhere were talking and wanted to take violent action.
A mayor in Massachusetts, looking at the 2,000-person unemployed team circling around the city hall, wrote: "Just get a spark, you can turn them into mobs."
North Carolina Governor Max Gardner warned that there was already a danger of "violent social and political revolutions". Chicago Mayor Anton Shemack heard that Illinois would not allocate funds to help 600,000 unemployed people in Chicago. He told the state legislature: "If you want to stop the relief station, send the army first."
The attitude of the recruitment departments of various companies is becoming more and more rude and rude, and bank cashiers are nervous. The elected mayor and county magistrates always dispatch police officers, and the police always use batons.
Henry Ford, who has always been tacting, now has a gun with him. A delegation from the Unemployed Workers Commission in Richmond, Virginia visited Mayor Fulmer Bright a few days after Thanksgiving. The mayor ordered the sheriff: "Get their collars, crotch, and throw them out."
Private guards at the Fayette County Mining Company in Pennsylvania were panicked and shot and killed four miners. New York City banned apple dealers from setting up stalls on the sidewalk.
The new mayor John O'Brien also boasted to the citizens: "Your new mayor is a tough guy, and the Red Party team can't invade New York City." The plainclothes police rushed into the rally at Federal Square with batons. According to the New York Times, "Women screamed and men were bleeding."
Police in Oklahoma used tear gas to disperse the people who were attending the meeting. Someone occupied the municipal building in Seattle, and the police drove them away with fire-fighting water dragons.
The on-duty policeman in Chicago used batons to deal with teachers who asked for wages. Two policemen grabbed one middle-aged female teacher, and the other hit her in the face...
Even Mrs. Roosevelt Eleanor suspected, "Who can save America now?!"
The situation in the whole of America is becoming increasingly critical! No one seems to be able to stop the revolution, but in all these crises there is a group of people trying to stop them. These people are naturally Roosevelt and Tu Qianjun.
It’s not that Tu Qianjun loves the United States so much. It’s really that the future World War II cannot do without the United States. Even if he doesn’t want to, he will try his best to prevent the United States from falling into collapse.
"Brother Ruici! Mr. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, the new President of the United States of America!" Tu Qianjun looked at Roosevelt's face and said solemnly.
"Believe me! You will be a good president! You will be famous in history! Become one of the greatest presidents in American history! You will overcome all difficulties! You will make people in this country proud of you!"
Roosevelt raised his head in surprise and looked at Tu Qianjun, but found that the young child looked at him with his usual firm eyes! For a moment, Roosevelt felt a warm heat flowing in his chest!
"Thank you! My friend!"
The car slowly drove into No. 49 East 65th Street, a residence in Roosevelt. As soon as the door opened, Roosevelt's mother Sarah Roosevelt ran out with her skirt and hugged Roosevelt, and said happily: "Dear! Do you know?! This is the happiest moment in my life!"
Roosevelt smiled, he hugged his mother and kissed her forehead deeply! Then he stroked his mother's white hair and whispered: "Yes! Mom, this is also the happiest moment in my life!"
The next morning, Roosevelt and Tu Qianjun had breakfast at home, and looked at the editorials from newspapers across the country sent by the secretary. Looking at the corners of these newspapers, Roosevelt couldn't help but smile!
The original slander for him disappeared overnight, and even the Chicago Tribune said: Roosevelt's "personality and propositions are loved by the people. They think he is kind and sincere!"
At this time, the secretary hurriedly sent Hoover to send a congratulatory message, saying first "congratulations on election" and then saying "I hope there will be broader cooperation." According to the custom, Roosevelt must call back to show respect. He criticized a few words on the back of the call, saying that he was going to "cooperate with you" in the next few months.
"Brother Ruici, do we still need to cooperate with this person who destroyed the United States?!" At some point, Tu Qianjun walked behind Roosevelt with milk. Roosevelt was shocked when he heard Tu Qianjun's experience! Then he fell into deep thought.
Roosevelt's consultant Louis McHenry Howe, who had breakfast together, slowly put down the bread and milk. He said in a deep voice to Roosevelt: "President, it seems that someone is testing your attitude!"
The Chicago Tribune said that Roosevelt is kind and sincere. Admittedly! Roosevelt has these qualities, but no one can think that this is a weakness and can be used to achieve his own goals.
If Roosevelt had a keen eye, he would not be able to see what he was thinking secretly. He would not be able to get the position of president. He could sit on the throne of the president. Of course, he would not be a fool who could be at the mercy of others and easily deceived!
Roosevelt stopped and pondered for a while, then casually ticked off the sentence and rewritten it as: "I will try my best to achieve the common goal of you and me, and this is to make a contribution to the country."
At that time, although the new president was elected, he would not take office until March 4 of the next year, and Hoover had a four-month transition period.
"I had a premonition that Hoover wanted to entangle him so that I could not get rid of the unpopular policies of the government. This might be just a temptation of him..." Roosevelt whispered at the telegram, while Tu Qianjun, who was standing behind him, chuckled and looked at Roosevelt: He guessed it right!
But what surprised them the most was that the first group of people who arrived was not Hoover, but **!
Shortly after the election, a group of **s suddenly came from No. 49 East 65th Street, New York to meet Roosevelt. Of course, Roosevelt met them. As a result, the group saw Roosevelt and said without thinking: "We want you to tell President Hoover that the federal government must..."
"I can't ask the president to do this and that. To the federal government, I am just an ordinary citizen now." Roosevelt interrupted without hesitation!
His words are counted. Before he took over the power, he never asked about the government. He only cared about Vincent Astor's yacht to go fishing - this was also the advice given to him by his staff. Anyway, since he was not in power, why bother with so much?! Let Hoover worry!
He chose an inconspicuous cabinet team, no matter who comes to see him, he always nodded. Arkansas Senator Huey Lange talked to him when he came to meet Roosevelt, and no matter what he said, Roosevelt said: "Okay! OK! OK!"
However, the next day, Huey Lange's mortal enemy was also Arkansas Senator Joseph Robinson's conservative force talked to Roosevelt, and he still said: "Okay! OK! OK!"
After wandering around, everyone finally understood! Perhaps Roosevelt said to everyone, "Okay! OK! OK!"
At that time, the situation of falling apart in American society was so tight, but Roosevelt was always humble, vague, and irrelevant. In everyone's opinion, this was too irresponsible!
Because everyone thinks he should make a difference, the most urgent thing is the outgoing President Hoover.
In November, Hoover sent a telegram to Roosevelt and suggested an interview. So Roosevelt visited the White House on his way to Georgia. The two talked for more than half an afternoon, and the specific talk was unknown, but the result was obvious! They had no solution to any problem.
In fact, long before this meeting, Roosevelt knew that a certain cabinet member under Hoover had said: "We have brought this guy into the hole now, and he can never get out of here."
However, how could the hole that Roosevelt could not escape be dug? Hoover only wanted to pull the other party onto the government's ship, which was almost overwhelming, but Roosevelt avoided it.
But after this meeting, Roosevelt also felt that it would be impossible to express his attitude. Hoover’s so-called “meeting” and “discussion” were actually to wrap him up into this mud pond! If he expresses his attitude, he will be taken in!
Roosevelt was not fooled, so poor Hoover could only be his last State of the Union address in the presidency.
The so-called State of the Union address is nothing more than a recurrence of the old tune, saying that taxes need to be increased, and European countries should pay back their war debts. They also said: "The system we have established is a system of personal freedom. The basis of our American system is: to allow all kinds of social and economic forces to play their role freely." The United States should "have confidence in the future"!
The State of the Union address has just been published, and the US banking system, which has "confidence in the future", has begun to collapse!
In the afternoon of the same day, Michigan Governor William A. Comstock received an emergency call asking him to go to the Detroit commercial district to attend a banking meeting, and he couldn't escape this time.
At this time, Detroit's joint guardianship trust company had reached its end. Once it collapsed, banks across the city were likely to go bankrupt one after another. Bankers asked Comstock to order all banks across the state to suspend business.
After discussing it in the middle of the night, Comstock agreed and took a bus to Lansing, the capital, and announced that all 550 banks in the state would be closed for eight days, saying it was "bank holiday."
Hoover hurriedly wrote a letter to Roosevelt in Washington. Just because he was panicked, even the name of his successor was misspelled on the envelope. Roosevelt had become accustomed to this misspelling of Hoover.
However, this letter was particularly annoyed. He read the letter carefully and couldn't help but scold Hoover for being "shameless". After Tu Qianjun and others finished reading the letter in shock, they couldn't help but think that Hoover was really an idiot!
Hoover said arrogantly that the whole country was worried and did not know what the new government would do. He said that he started from the standpoint of patriotism and maintaining "confidence". He asked Roosevelt to publicly state that he would not change the current government's policies.
Damn it, Nimale next door! What Roosevelt wants is the New Deal! You asked him to issue a statement saying that he would not change the existing government's policies. Wouldn't that make him slap himself in the face? And Roosevelt is the president! You will get out of here for a few more months!
After reading this letter, Tu Qianjun couldn't help but sigh! It's no wonder that Roosevelt gritted his teeth after hating Hoover and even snatched the name of "Hoover" on the Hoover Dam. It was this guy who really made Roosevelt mean!
Then, Sen. David A. Reed of Pennsylvania transferred a letter from Hoover to himself to Roosevelt. After reading the letter, Roosevelt threw his cup on the spot!
But the letter read: "I know that if the president-elect really made such a statement, he would recognize all the main policies of the Republican government. In other words, his so-called new policies would be destroyed by nine out of ten."
To be continued...