warren g. harding

     

His administration created a tempest in a teapot -- whoops! Make that Teapot Dome

Trivia about warren g. harding

  • The scandals of his 1920s presidency included skimming by Veterans Bureau head Charles Forbes
  • Leonard Wood lost the 1920 Republican nomination to this man who went on to win the presidency
  • It's out of the closet that he was in the closet with Nan Britton, a young flapper
  • Complaining of this president's english, H.L. Mencken called it "Gamalielese"
  • His middle name was Gamaliel
  • This philandering U.S. pres. called his wife Florence "The Duchess"; we wonder if she had any choice nicknames for him
  • His wife Florence consulted an astrologer who said that he'd win the presidency but die in office
  • He died of a stroke on August 2, 1923, right after his wife read an article about him, "A Calm View of a Calm Man"
  • First Republican president after Taft, he appointed Taft chief justice
  • When this randy U.S. president died suddenly in Frisco after a trip to Alaska, rumors swirled his wife had poisoned him
  • The first radio broadcast of a presidential inaugural address was this president's in 1921 over KDKA
  • This man appointed Harry Daugherty, who'd helped him become lt. gov. of Ohio & a U.S. senator as well as president
  • During his 1920 presidential campaign, a big payoff kept Carrie Phillips quiet about her affair with him
  • This U.S. president was the first president for whom all women were eligible to vote
  • Maybe it was the campaign song Al Jolson wrote that got him elected U.S. president in 1920
  • Calvin Coolidge
  • H.L. Mencken said this president's use of language reminded him "of stale bean soup" & dubbed it "Gamalielese"
  • In 1921 this big wheel rode to his inauguration in a Packard Twin Six convertible
  • He was editor & owner of the Marion, Ohio Star newspaper
  • 1920:Calvin Coolidge
  • The scandals of his presidency began in 1923 with skimming by Veterans Bureau head Charles Forbes
  • His wife Florence often consulted a Washington astrologer known as Madame Marcia
  • Albert Fall, Herbert Hoover & Henry Wallace were all members of his cabinet
  • This Ohioan was the first sitting U.S. senator elected president
  • After his death in 1923, it was revealed that he trysted with his mistress in the White House
  • William Howard Taft
  • November 2, 1865 in Corsica (now Blooming Grove), Ohio
  • The corner of Delaware Avenue & Vernon Heights Blvd. in Marion, Ohio