Editing Franklin D. Roosevelt (section)

===Transition and assassination attempt===
{{Main|Presidential transition of Franklin D. Roosevelt}}
Roosevelt was elected in November 1932 but like his predecessors did not take office until the following March.{{efn|Roosevelt was the last president inaugurated on March 4. The [[Twentieth Amendment to the United States Constitution|Twentieth Amendment]] changed presidential inaugurations to January 20, from 1937.}} After the election, President Hoover sought to convince Roosevelt to renounce much of his campaign platform and to endorse the Hoover administration's policies.{{sfn|Smith|2007|pp=290–91}} Roosevelt refused Hoover's request to develop a joint program to stop the economic decline, claiming that it would tie his hands and that Hoover had the power to act.{{sfn|Burns|1956|p=146}}

During the transition, Roosevelt chose Howe as his chief of staff, and Farley as Postmaster General. Frances Perkins, as Secretary of Labor, became the first woman appointed to a cabinet position.<ref name = "FDR Campaigns"/> [[William H. Woodin]], a Republican industrialist close to Roosevelt, was chosen for Secretary of the Treasury, while Roosevelt chose Senator [[Cordell Hull]] of Tennessee as Secretary of State. [[Harold L. Ickes]] and [[Henry A. Wallace]], two progressive Republicans, were selected for Secretary of the Interior and Secretary of Agriculture, respectively.{{sfn|Smith|2007|pp=292–95}}

In February 1933, Roosevelt escaped an assassination attempt by [[Giuseppe Zangara]], who expressed a "hate for all rulers". As he was attempting to shoot Roosevelt, Zangara was struck by a woman with her purse; he instead mortally wounded Chicago Mayor [[Anton Cermak]], who was sitting alongside Roosevelt.{{sfn|Burns|1956|p=147}}<ref>{{cite news|first=Amy|last=Davidson|title=The FDR New Yorker cover that never ran|date=May 5, 2012|url=https://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/closeread/2012/05/the-fdr-new-yorker-cover-that-never-ran.html|newspaper=The New Yorker}}</ref>