Warren G. Harding Quotes
I expect it is very possible that I would make as good a President as a great many men who are talked of for that position.
Harding, Warren G. Letter to Malcolm Jennings. 28 Aug. 1919. Quoted in The Shadow of Blooming Grove: Warren G. Harding in His Times, by Francis Russell, McGraw-Hill, 1968, p. 320.
Stimson had been a key member of the Theodore Roosevelt national administration, and Roosevelt, before he became Vice President and then President had been a very popular governor of NY. Stimson, although a brilliant administrator, and statesman was a bit stuffy and aloof and was a terrible campaigner. He thought it immodest to refer to himself in public or to talk about his record. See {589269}. So the Republicans tried to tie him to Roosevelt who was still very popular. See {589268}. It was not enough. Stimson lost.
Nixon did not make Eisenhower’s first short list, but was finally selected.
Warren Gamaliel Harding was the 29th president of the United States, serving from 1921 until his death in 1923. A member of the Republican Party, he was one of the most popular U.S. presidents to that point. After his death, a number of scandals, including Teapot Dome, came to light, as did his extramarital affair with Nan Britton; those eroded his popular regard.
