Before they were enemies they were neighbors — Hoover and Roosevelt lived close to each other in wartime Washington, and FDR praised Hoover publicly as the star of American politics and the man of the future. Then Hoover denied the president-elect Secret Service protection, and left a man on crutches standing too long at a White House reception. Historian Anthony Badger on a feud that was personal before it was ever political.
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