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It suits all the business interests which want to be let alone…. And it suits all those who have become convinced that government in this country has become dangerously complicated and top-heavy….

Coolidge was both the most negative and remote of Presidents, and the most accessible. Even that is too much. It winds them up for twenty minutes more. But no President was kinder in permitting himself to be photographed in Indian war bonnets or cowboy dress, and in greeting a variety of delegations to the White House.

Both his dry Yankee wit and his frugality with words became legendary. His wife, Grace Goodhue Coolidge, recounted that a young woman sitting next to Coolidge at a dinner party confided to him she had bet she could get at least three words of conversation from him. By the time the disaster of the Great Depression hit the country, Coolidge was in retirement.

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Toggle High Contrast. Grant Rutherford B. Hayes James Garfield Chester A. Roosevelt Harry S. Truman Dwight D. Eisenhower John F. Warren G. Though his term in office was fraught with scandal, including Teapot Dome, Harding embraced technology and was sensitive to the plights of minorities and women. Before his nomination, Warren G. Cox of Ohio and Franklin D. Thirty-one distinguished Republicans had signed a manifesto assuring voters that a vote for Harding was a vote for the League.

But Harding interpreted his election as a mandate to stay out of the League of Nations. Harding, born near Marion, Ohio, in , became the publisher of a newspaper. He married a divorcee, Mrs. Florence Kling De Wolfe. He was a trustee of the Trinity Baptist Church, a director of almost every important business, and a leader in fraternal organizations and charitable enterprises. He served in the state Senate and as Lieutenant Governor, and unsuccessfully ran for Governor. He delivered the nominating address for President Taft at the Republican Convention.

Thus a group of Senators, taking control of the Republican Convention when the principal candidates deadlocked, turned to Harding. He won the Presidential election by an unprecedented landslide of 60 percent of the popular vote.

They eliminated wartime controls and slashed taxes, established a Federal budget system, restored the high protective tariff, and imposed tight limitations upon immigration. Word began to reach the President that some of his friends were using their official positions for their own enrichment.

Looking wan and depressed, Harding journeyed westward in the summer of , taking with him his upright Secretary of Commerce, Herbert Hoover.

He did not live to find out how the public would react to the scandals of his administration. In August of , he died in San Francisco of a heart attack. The Presidential biographies on WhiteHouse.



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