Warren G. Quotes

During the Republican National Convention of 1920, when the delegates were deadlocked between four candidates, Daugherty told the press:

In 1921 when Harding took office, the nation was in the midst of a major depression which was to get worse before it got better.

Ohio was then supporting Warren G. Harding.

In the 1920 Republican primary in Indiana things were looking poorly for Warren G. Harding and his campaign manager called to advise Harding to drop out of the race. Harding was about to agree when Mrs. Harding grabbed the phone.

She was the first presidential candidate's wife to admit such a radical position.

Although obvious oversimplifications, these were key strategic elements of these Presidential campaigns.

Mellon was one of the richest men in America and a very powerful Treasury Secretary who served under 3 presidents. However, he was very independent with his own power base which was what made Norris’s line very funny. It was politically impossible for the President’s to fire Mellon.

Criticizing the oratory of President Warren G. Harding:

The professor had done some historical research on Harding's ancestry going back to the seventeenth century and claimed that Harding had Negro blood. One Ohio newspaper carried the information and the Harding forces bought up most of the copies and suppressed the story. There has been no subsequent confirming research.

Asked why he sponsored Warren G. Harding for the presidency:

This quotation has special historical significance in American political history. Conservative President Warren G. Harding first suggested that the United States join and recognize the authority of the International Court. Then Herbert Hoover, a Republican icon after his term of office, in his Inaugural Address, advocated the Court. However, many of his own party and some Democrats were opposed to the U. S. recognizing any international court. So Hoover bucked the leadership of his own party. The FDR administration in 1935 signed the protocol, but it was never ratified by the two thirds of the Senate that was needed to become American law. In the beginning of the 21st century, the Republican was rabidly in opposition to any International or world court even though Hoover and Harding were all for it.

President-elect Harding had sounded out Herbert Hoover's interest in becoming Secretary of Commerce. At the time, the Commerce Department was of relatively little importance, housing only a few scientific bureaus. Hoover placed conditions upon his acceptance whereby the department, and he, would be given much more authority and funding. Word of the negotiations leaked and Hoover was asked if he was placing conditions upon the President:

The President was under attack for the Teapot Dome scandal when he died in office: Harding was not personally involved with the Teapot Dome corruption scandal, but his appointees and friends were. Much public and press attack was directed at the President.

Actually “normalcy” was not a theory but a slogan or a codeword. See {624061}.