Franklin D. Roosevelt while Roosevelt chose Senator Cordell Hull of Tennessee as Secretary of State. Harold L. Ickes and Henry A. Wallace, two progressive Republicans, were selected for the roles of Secretary of the Interior and Secretary of Agriculture, respectively. In February 1933, Roosevelt escaped an assassination attempt by Giuseppe Zangara, who expressed a "hate for all rulers." Attempting to shoot Roosevelt, Zangara instead mortally wounded Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak, who was sitting alongside Roosevelt. Roosevelt appointed powerful men to top positions but made all the major decisions, regardless of delays, inefficiency or resentment. Analyzing the president's administrative style, historian James MacGregor Burns
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