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Several historians deny claims of orgies and mistresses, such as Robert H. Ferrell and Paul Johnson.

Paul Johnson writes in Modern Times: " When in 1964 the Harding Papers ( which had not been burnt ) were opened to scholars, no truth at all was found in any of the myths, though it emerged that Harding, a pathetically shy man with women, had a sad and touching friendship with the wife of a Marion store-owner before his presidency.

The Babylonian image was a fantasy, and in all essentials Harding had been an honest and exceptionally shrewd president.