Franklin D. Roosevelt countries. Roosevelt also normalized relations with the Soviet Union, which the United States had refused to recognize since the 1920s. Roosevelt hoped to renegotiate the Russian debt from World War I and open trade relations, but no progress was made on either issue, and "both nations were soon disillusioned by the accord." The rejection of the Treaty of Versailles during the Wilson administration marked the dominance of isolationism in American foreign policy. Despite Roosevelt's Wilsonian background, he and Secretary of State Cordell Hull acted with great care not to provoke isolationist sentiment. The isolationist movement was bolstered in the early
Theodore Joslin he lost in a landslide to Franklin D. Roosevelt. After Hoover left office, Joslin published an expurgated version of the diary as "Hoover Off the Record" (1934). Much of what he omitted was later published by Timothy Walch and Dwight M. Miller in "Herbert Hoover and Franklin D. Roosevelt: A Documentary History" (1998). He died in 1944. Theodore Joslin Theodore Goldsmith "Ted" Joslin (February 28, 1890 – April 12, 1944) was the second White House Press Secretary under President Herbert Hoover from 1931 until 1933. Joslin was born in Leominster, Massachusetts, to Frederick A. and Hanna Hopgood Joslin. After graduating