Volume 29, Number 11 · June 24, 1982
A Naughty President
By Francis Russell
The Ohio Gang: The World of Warren G. Harding
by Charles L. Mee Jr.
M. Evans, 248 pp., $14.95
By general consent Warren Gamaliel Harding has come to be considered the sorriest of our presidents, remembered chiefly for the scandals that came out after his death and for the mysteries that continue to surround his life. Yet other presidents have tolerated scandals without being branded by them, and one can scarcely maintain that Harding's administration was shot through with scandal when it included such men as Charles Evans Hughes, Herbert Hoover, and the elder Henry Wallace in the Cabinet, and the Harding-appointed chief justice William Howard Taft.
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