[Verginius Rufus]

Eugene Debs was sentenced to ten years in prison, but was released before completing three years. He was pardoned by Warren G. Harding in time to spend Christmas 1921 with his family.

By the way, John W. Dean was on C-SPAN the other day as part of a panel of people who have written biographies of U.S. Presidents; he has a new book out on Warren G. Harding. I don't know whether it is worth reading.

[gcruse]

Thanks for the headsup. I googled up a review of Dean's book and it looks like it is mostly early bio and political, which isn't too surprising, I guess.

The thing with Harding, though, is the Harding family's legal clamp on correspondence between Harding and a woman in Ohio he was supposedly having an affair with, alongside Nan Britton whom he allegedly boffed in the White House, on a train, and out of town.

Unless the reviewer skipped all that, which I doubt, the Harding book is a dry as John Dean's demeanor. We want Mo!