Posted on 08/02/2023 10:24:38 AM PDT by Borges
Since freedom impelled, and independence inspired, and nationality exalted, a world supergovernment is contrary to everything we cherish and can have no sanction by our Republic. This is not selfishness, it is sanctity. It is not aloofness, it is security. It is not suspicion of others, it is patriotic adherence to the things which made us what we are.
That was the Democrat retort to the Republicans who had accused Grover Cleveland of having an illegitimate child during the 1884 presidential campaign.
When Harding died, Coolidge was at his father’s home in Plymouth Notch, Vt. When he was informed of Harding’s death in the middle of the night, his father, a notary public, swore him in as president. If you visit Plymouth Notch, you can visit the parlor of the Coolidge home and see the table where Coolidge was sworn in.
Madame Never President Hillary claims he committed suicide.
Wasn’t that Elvis with him?
“A gregarious man who loved to smoke, drink, philander and travel...”
Good to know politicians haven’t changed any.
Nothing new under the sun.
He’s actually hanging out with the space aliens at the grassy knoll waiting for the bomb to go off at the book depository, just before the plane flies into to it, so that it looks like a plane did it, rather than a bomb blowing up the book depository... Seriously!
Harding's swarthy good looks, support for anti-lynching legislation, and opposition to harsh segregation measures helped inspire suspicion that he had a "touch of the tar brush" in his ancestry, as was politely said in that era. Harding himself did not know. Indirect Democratic attacks on Harding based on such claims were unheard by most voters and usually ignored or dismissed outside of Democrat inclined Klan circles. The suspicion though inspired stronger black support for Harding.
Most of Harding's cabinet appointees were successful, such as Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover and Secretary of Treasury Andrew Mellon, although several major appointees were corrupt. Personally honest, but with a relaxed and masculine manner that suggested otherwise, Harding nevertheless dealt vigorously with corruption in his administration when it came to his attention. He is thought to have been on the cusp of sacking several crooked members of his administration when he died. As with Bill and Hillary Clinton decades later, Harding's ambitious and demanding wife Florence tended to generate sympathy and understanding for Harding when his extramarital affairs eventually became known.
The revelation of corruption in parts of the Harding administration helped to inspire suspicions that he had been murdered. In truth, Harding seems to have been suffering from advanced heart disease when he died, perhaps with food poisoning as a precipitating cause. Had Harding lived, he would have cleaned house and been well-remembered for doing so.
I couldn’t see; Jim Morrison was in the way.
This just in: Francisco Franco is still dead!
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