Politics as usual

I hate politics, as I have mentioned before, since it usually revolves around a bunch of crooks trying to get a place at the public trough on the pretense that this will somehow benefit me.
Still, as I remarked to a Swiss fellow who was kidding me about the 2000 election, "If we can't have world class leadership, we can at least have world class entertainment."
Joe Biden, who thinks he has the knowledge and experience to be VP, in an interview with Katie Couric said:

"When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on the television and didn't just talk about the princes of greed," Biden told Couric. "He said, 'Look, here's what happened.'"

Quick quiz: There are 2 things primarily wrong here. What are they?

For the benefit of those of you who learned history in a public school in the last 20 years or so, here they are.
1. The stock market crash happened in 1929. Herbert Hoover was president.
2. FDR was, in fact the first president to go on TV, but did not avail himself of the new technology until 1939.

Yo! Joe! Quick! Tell me who was president when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?

Edited: To correct Hoover reference.