29. WARREN HARDING
± 1st President to speak about Civil rights in the South
± 1st President to visit Alaska
± 1st President to receive more than 10 million votes
± 1st President that the women could've voted for
± 1st pres to own a radio and make a speech over radio waves
± first to ride to inauguration in a car and first to know how to drive
o Wife- Florence Kling: at 19, she was already divorced and had a son. Met Warren when he was 16. Married 4 yrs later, never had children together. Husband called her "The Duchess", and she championed veteran's causes and cultivated the press
o VP: Calvin Coolidge
o fun, relaxed, genuinely liked people, could not say 'no'
o was Baptist
o born in village in Ohio
o Wobbly Warren, General Grouch
o entered Ohio central college when 14
o taught in a country school, tried law, insurance sales, and editor of Marion Star
o surrounded by the Ohio gang, a group of cheats, with Albert Fall (secretary of interior). The few good people were Charles Hughes, Andrew Mellon, and Herbert Hoover.
o liked to play poker with them, drink whiskey, smoke, tell jokes, play golf, keep late hours
o died of pneumonia/stroke
• ran for senator and won against Timothy Hogan
• "Return to Normalcy", or return to life before WW1, was Harding's campaign promise
• senate career made him few enemies and many friends
• called the "good fellas" and was acceptable to almost all party regulars
• served as keynote speaker and chairman of Republican national convention
• on League of Nations
• signed revised version of Budget and Accounting Act of 1921, after it failed to pass during Wilson pres, which created General Accounting office to audit govt expenditures
• supported bills assisting farm cooperatives and the liberalization of farm credit
• Federal Highway Act
• Emergency Quota Act- limited immigrants
• Emergency Tariff Act
• Teapot dome scandal- bribery incident
• Pardons Eugene Debs
Ø foreign affair: Washington Conference for limitation of Armaments (Washington Naval Conference)- naval disarmament and ways to relieve growing tensions in East Asia
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