Third and fourth terms of the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt Committee, the first national program designed to prevent employment discrimination. The two-term tradition had been an unwritten rule (until the ratification the 22nd Amendment after Roosevelt's presidency) since George Washington declined to run for a third term in 1796. Both Ulysses S. Grant and Theodore Roosevelt were attacked for trying to obtain a third non-consecutive term. Roosevelt systematically undercut prominent Democrats who were angling for the nomination, including Vice President John Nance Garner and two cabinet members, Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Postmaster General James Farley. Roosevelt moved the convention to Chicago where he had strong support from the
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