Alf
Landon
- Relations between Hoover and FDR more strained than any in presidential history. (Boulder Dam story)
- Republican move to renominated Hoover, but party turned to Gov. Alf Landon of Kansas,
- Landon formerly
supported
TR's Progressive Party, a liberal Republican sympathetic to
aspects of the New Deal, but ardently anti-Labor.
- Running mate Frank Knox (FDR's future Secretary of the Navy.