Volume 51, Number 2 · February 12, 2004
Back to Normalcy!
By Russell Baker
Warren G. Harding
by John W. Dean
American Presidents Series/Times Books, 202 pp., $20.00
Warren Gamaliel Harding, twenty-ninth president of the United States, was elected in 1920 by a huge majority of Americans who wanted presidents to leave them alone. He obliged them for two and a half years and then, fifty-seven years old, died at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. Later it was rumored that First Lady Florence Harding, known to her husband and his close associates as 'the Duchess,' had poisoned him in a murderous onset of jealousy.
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