What if the results of the 1928 election had been different, and Al Smith, not
Herbert Hoover, had been elected POTUS? Despite opposition from the KKK.
This would have made him, and not JFK, our first Catholic President. President-
elect Smith is sworn in on March 4, 1929, in a fairly good economy. Then, in
October, Wall Street, in the immortal words of Daily Variety, "laid an egg."
I'm talking about the Stock Market Crash of 1929, and the Great Depression.
How would the Great Depression have affected the Smith Administration, and
would have led to the election of Herbert Hoover in 1932?