Warren G. Harding

Names like James Buchanan or Andrew Johnson.

Names like Warren G. Harding.

A business-friendly playboy more interested in girls and booze than running the nation, Harding has the distinction of presiding over the most corrupt White House in US history.

As the 20s roared, his Ohio gang lined their pockets, fleecing the nation and partook in the Teapot Dome scandal, a swindle so great it was declared the most stupendous piece of thievery known to our annals.

was there more to this party president than meets the eye despite his abysmal reputation harding died so beloved that it's thought 9 million people lined his coffins route to pay their respects today we're investigating how the 29th president got his crooked reputation and if it's one he really deserves When, as a presidential candidate, the wealthy Warren G. Harding wanted to connect with common people, it would be to his childhood he turned again and again.

Born shortly after the Civil War ended on November 2, 1865, Harding's early life was a rural fairy tale.

his parents were ohio farmers turned country doctors and harding's boyhood was spent swimming in creeks working with animals and playing in the local village band educated in a one-room schoolhouse he knew everybody in his area and they knew him by his teenage years he was so tall and athletic everyone referred to him as adonis in short it was an idyllic childhood one he'd later play on to boost his popularity But had you told locals at the time that this easy-going Ohio lad would one day be president, they'd probably have laughed in your face.

That's because young Warren G. Harding was almost singularly unambitious.

Prohibitionists who have not put their brains in storage may judge whether or not his tactics are good and contribute to the end he seeks." Now from the standpoint of pure calculation directed to the attainment of a strategic end, in a warfare between the power of a government and the forces of a very large proportion of the population over which it holds sway, the Tribune may be entirely right.

But what is left of the idea of respect for law? With what effectiveness can either President Angel or President Harding appeal to that sentiment when it is openly admitted that the government not only deliberately overlooks violations of the law by millions of private individuals, but actually directs that the law shall be violated on its own ships for fear that the commercial loss entailed by doing otherwise would further excite popular resentment against the law? It has only to be added that since the date of that editorial, June 18th, 1922, the Anti-Saloon League has come out strongly against the selling of liquor on government-owned ships, a change which only emphasizes the point I am making.

For in spite of the Tribune's shrewd observations, it soon became clear that the Volstead Act was being so terribly discredited by the preposterous spectacle of the government selling liquor on its own ships that something had to be done about it.

And it was only under the pressure of this situation that a new line of strategy was adopted by the Anti-Saloon League.

I did see a sort of discussion informally one time where people were saying, you know, instead of saying whatever gate, maybe we could say something else.

Like, what else could it be? And one suggestion was dome after the teapot dome scandal, which took place during the Warren Harding administration.

So I

don't

Calvin Coolidge, December 6, 1923.

Since the close of the last Congress, the nation has lost President Harding.

The world knew his kindness and his humanity, his greatness and his character.

He has left his mark upon history.

Well, there is actually such a comprehensive list here that it's funny because some of these people are not well known to have been assassinated.

And I actually, I don't know if you knew about it already, but I gave you my hat tip on or my tip on Warren Harding.

Yeah, I appreciate that.

Yeah.

But they

made, like,

Gaston Means was his murderer when really he was the whistleblower on corruption and exposing these political murders he reported on in that book, The Strange Death of Warren Harding.

So, you know, J. Edgar Hoover had launched a smear attack campaign on Gaston Means.

Francis J. Grimke, Washington, D.C., November 3, 1918.

End of Some Reflections Growing Out of the Recent Epidemic of Influenza That Afflicted Our City by Francis J. Grimke Remarks of the President in Presenting to Madame Curie a Gift of Radium from the American People by President Warren G. Harding This is a LibriVox recording.

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domain.For more information or to volunteer, please visit librivox.org. Madame Curie, it is with an especial satisfaction that I perform the pleasant duty which has been assigned to me today.

It betokens the affection of one great people for another.

It will remind you of the love of a grateful people for yourself, and it will testify in the useful work to which you will devote it the reverence of mankind for one of its foremost benefactors and most beloved of women.

End of Remarks of the President in Presenting to Madame Curie a Gift of Radium from the American People by President Warren G. Harding.

Read by Anita Sloma Martinez.

It's unavoidable.

President Harding did something no modern politician would dare to attempt.

He wait for it again.

You want the recipe? He cut federal spending from six point three billion to three point two billion from 2020.