I wouldn’t include Harding on your Worst list. Despite his cronyism, he was a fiscal conservative and his laisse faire economic policies and extremely low taxes did great things for the economy.
Personally, I’d put Coolidge up there pretty high on the best list.
“I wouldn’t include Harding on your Worst list. Despite his cronyism, he was a fiscal conservative and his laisse faire economic policies and extremely low taxes did great things for the economy.”
This is another example of liberal bias that has infected the ‘official history’. Harding was the Reagan of his day, very popular, conservative in a jocular natural way, but hated by the liberal intelligentsia. Since he died in office and his navy Secretary was caught in a scandal when he died (Teapot Dome, which harding had nothing to do with), the liberals in the history books just give him a few paragprahs - ALL about teapot dome.
NONE of it mentions:
- Harding invited black leaders of the NAACP, at a time when the Democrats were under the sway of the KKK
- Harding ran and won on “back to normalcy”, which meant an end to the Govt regulations Woodrow Wilson imposed during WWI, and also meant lower taxes
- the economic policies led to the ‘roaring twenties’, which Coolidge continued successfully