While Franklin Roosevelt waited to assume the presidency in early 1933, Herbert Hoover tried to get the president-elect to commit to a. maintaining a balanced federal budget.
b. renewal of the extremely high Hawley-Smoot Tariff.
c. an anti-inflationary policy that would have made much of the New Deal impossible.
d. appointing some Republicans to his cabinet.
e. a policy of not offering direct welfare to the unemployed.

The correct answer is C) an anti-inflationary policy that would have made much of the New Deal impossible.

While Franklin Roosevelt waited to assume the presidency in early 1933, Herbert Hoover tried to get the president-elect to commit to an anti-inflationary policy that would have made much of the New Deal impossible.

Many historians and journalists compared the Hoover-Roosevelt transition to the one that had Trump with Joe Bidden- It was complicated, had several "bumps in the road" and neither Hoover nor Roosevelt deiced to cooperate with each other to have a smooth transition.

Roosevelt decided to create the New Deal, a series of economic programs and legislation aimed to help the American people after the Great Depression that started on October 29, 1929, after the US stock market crashed. Under the New Deal, the federal government created the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, the Work Progress Administration, the Social Security Act, the Civilian Conservation Corps, or the Social Security Administration.

harding's opponent in the 1920 election was ohio governor and newspaperman james m. cox, who had won the democratic nomination in a 44-ballot convention battle. harding rejected the progressive ideology of the wilson administration in favor of the laissez-faire approach of the mckinley administration.

the correct answer is history and tradition.