[hinckley buzzard]

Harding squelched a growing depression in its infancy by cutting government spending and cutting taxes--by half each. It worked and the Depression of 1920 was over by 1922. He was tarred as corrupt by Democrats for the Teapot Dome scandal, which by present day standards under obama was a true tempest in a teapot.

The article is right, all in all he was quite a creditable president-- and he gave us Calvin Coolidge, another highly underrated republican president.

[Louis Foxwell]

Squelching depression and promoting economic boom is antithetical to Democrat policy and interests. They thrive on misery, the worse the better. Obviously any president able to bring the country out of malaise will be an arch enemy of the Democrat party.
Teapot Dome was a nonissue as noted above when it occured and multiplied 100 fold by a Democrat administration.

[marron]

There is no need to clear out a space on Mount Rushmore for Warren Harding.

But Coolidge, maybe, yes.

[The Pack Knight]

Harding also released a number of nonviolent protesters who had been locked up by Wilson, and dismantled many of Wilson’s the wartime economic controls.

He ought to be considered a hero for rolling back - if only temporarily - the expansion of the Progressive state.