Franklin Foer writes in a new Guardian article:
Americans of all persuasions began yearning for the salvific
ascendance of the most famous engineer of his time: Herbert Hoover. In
1920, Franklin D Roosevelt – who would, of course, go on to replace
him in 1932 – organised a movement to draft Hoover for the presidency.
Here is a similar claim:
It is no wonder that Progressive Republicans as well as such
Progressive Democrats as Louis Brandeis, Herbert Croly, and others on
the New Republic, Edward A. Filene, Colonel Edward M. House, and
Franklin D. Roosevelt, boomed Hoover for the presidency during the
1920 campaign.
However, FDR was the Democratic vice-presidential candidate himself in 1920!
(wiki)
Isn't there something of a contradiction here? Perhaps FDR was supporting a Hoover run before he decided to run himself? Am I engaging in an anachronism here?