Scaled Back

“The Roosevelt Special [in 1932] was smaller and less decked-out than the one [Democratic presidential nominee] Al Smith used during his train tour four years earlier, and Governor Roosevelt intentionally had a smaller entourage than Smith,” Scott Martelle wrote in his book, 1932.

“But it wasn’t all for image. The 1928 campaign had more money during those heady pre-crash days than the Roosevelt campaign could bring in,” he observed. 

Source: Scott Martelle, 1932: FDR, Hoover, and the Dawn of a New America (New York: Citadel Press, 2023), 208