Mrs. Harding was highly protective of President Harding's personal legacy.

In order to protect her husband's damaged legacy, Mrs. Harding only left 1 / 7 of Harding's personal papers for posterity, having destroyed the rest.

Harding's widow immediately gathered and had burned the late President's papers in an effort to preserve her husband's legacy.

Some in the party began to scout for such an alternative, and Harding's name arose, despite his reluctance, due to his unique ability to draw vital Ohio votes.

Another economic contraction began near the end of Harding's presidency in 1923, while tax cuts were still underway.

Before any of the scandalous activity became widely known, Harding's popularity began to ebb, but he responded with determination to run for re-election, despite strong support emerging for the very popular Henry Ford for the Democrats.

During Harding's western travels, historian Samuel H. Adams claims that Harding's own political views began to expand and became more independent from established Republican Party agenda.

The investigation began in October 1923 after Harding's death, and the Senate Committee on Lands and Public Surveys, which carried out the inquiry, concluded in 1924 that the Teapot Dome and Elk Hills leases to the oil companies had been fraudulent and corrupt.

This controversy reached a high point when Harding's chief rival, Robbins, began the second ascent of his Early Morning Light route, hanging in Harding and Caldwell's bolt and bat-hook holes, and then cutting off the hangers, declaring he wished to restore the rock to its pristine state — and making a third ascent unlikely.

At this point, in replying in the affirmative, Harding's voice began to break and his eyes watered.

The information gathered by President Harding's Alaska tour found that to improve agriculture in South Central Alaska, irrigation would be required due to low territory rainfall totals.

The nation's unemployment rate dropped by half during Harding's administration.

In 1912, Harding gave the nominating speech for incumbent President William Howard Taft, who would later serve as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court during Harding's administration, at the embattled Republican National Convention in Chicago — before he completed his introduction, a fist fight ensued between the Taft supporters and the more progressive Roosevelt faction, but the speech was quite a personal success.

Harding's " front porch campaign " during the late summer and fall of 1920 captured the imagination of the country.

" The only scandal which was openly discovered during Harding's lifetime was in the Veteran's Bureau.

* Gaston Means, a professional conman during U. S. President Warren G. Harding's administration.

In 1923, President Warren G. Harding's funeral train passed through Butler County on its way back to Washington D. C. John F. Kennedy delivered a speech in front of the Butler County Courthouse during the United States presidential election, 1960.

Harding's " Front Porch Campaign " during the late summer and fall of 1920 captured the imagination of the country.

Many of these individuals came into Harding's personal orbit during his tenure as a state-level politician in Ohio, thus the name.

Active in the Republican Party, she was president of the Women's Republican League during Warren G. Harding's 1920 presidential campaign and the first election in which all American women were given the right to vote.

It met in Washington, D. C. from March 4, 1923 to March 4, 1925, during the last months of Warren G. Harding's presidency, and the first years of his successor, Calvin Coolidge.

Anthony also details Harding's induction into the Tall Cedars of Lebanon, a Shrine organization, during the convention week ( making note of the conical hat used by the Tall Cedars in the ceremony ); Anthony writes that he feels that the charges made by Grand Wizard Alton Young ( reported by Wyn Craig Wade in 1985 ) against Harding were in " retaliation for the Shrine speech and another anti-bigotry speech made by Harding at the dedication of the Alexander Hamilton statue at the Treasury Building " in the previous month of May 1923.

The book contains a description of the ascent of the Nose and the Wall of Early Morning Light ( 1970 ) as well as farcical instruction in climbing basics, ratings of prominent climbers of the period, a humorous account of rock climbing controversies and life-styles of the 1960s and 1970s, and a vivid portrayal of Harding's own rebellious and charismatic character.

On July 28, 1920, Harding's general election campaign manager, Albert Lasker, unleashed a broad-based advertising campaign that implemented modern advertising techniques ; the focus was more strategy oriented.

Campaign manager Lasker struck a deal with Harding's paramour, Carrie Phillips, and her husband Jim Phillips, whereby the couple agreed to leave the country until after the election ; ostensibly, Mr. Phillips was to investigate the silk trade.

Before Harding's election, the nation had been adrift ; President Woodrow Wilson had been ill by a debilitating stroke for eighteen months and before that Wilson had been in Europe for several months attempting to negotiate a peace settlement after World War I.

Graft and corruption charges permeated Harding's Department of Justice ; bootleggers confiscated tens of thousands cases of whiskey through bribery and kickbacks.

This was not favorably received by Harding's colleagues ; a resolution was nevertheless drafted, in deference to the President, and then promptly buried in the Foreign Affairs Committee.

Harding's appointment of Harry M. Daugherty as Attorney General received at the time more criticism than any other ; Harding's campaign manager's Ohio lobbying and back room maneuvers with politicians were not considered the best qualifications.

These women included Susie Hodder and Carrie Fulton Phillips, Mrs. Harding's personal friends ; Grace Cross, Harding's senatorial aide ; and Nan Britton.

During the 1952 and 1956 elections, they voted 60 % or more for Democrat Adlai Stevenson, while General Eisenhower garnered 40 % for his reelection ; the best showing to date for the Republicans since Harding's 43 % in 1920.

John Harding's son, Confederate Army General William Giles Harding was Bill Jackson's great-grandfather ; he built the Belle Meade Mansion in 1853.

Harding's father, Dr. George Tryon Harding, was a homeopathic physician ; Harding's mother Pheobe Dickerson Harding was a midwife who later qualified for an Ohio medical license.

I Corps controlled the two American divisions in Australia, Major General Forrest Harding's 32nd Infantry Division, based at Camp Cable near Brisbane ; and Major General Horace Fuller's 41st Infantry Division at Rockhampton, Queensland, where Eichelberger, who was promoted to lieutenant general on 21 October, decided to establish his I Corps headquarters.

Le Gerrant, the blind leader of The Union, immediately deduces Harding's double-cross and has him executed ; Harding's body later washes up on the beaches of Gibraltar.

Harding's relationship with Congress, however, was strained and he did not receive the traditional honeymoon given to new Presidents.

Pyle however knows he can get more out of Harding and later on uses Harding's relationship with Lynn to make him turn informant and gain further information about the supermarket robbery.

Carl S. Anthony, biographer of Harding's wife ( though not of Warren ), found no such proof of Harding's membership in the Klan, he does however discuss the events leading up to the period when the alleged Klan ceremony was held in June 1923:

Behind Harding's gruff exterior there was a lonely and complex man who constantly donated to charity, visited the sick and helped many in need.

However, his time there was marked by frequent clashes with Bates, club chairman and majority shareholder, a man in many respects Harding's antithesis, over the new direction to be taken by the club.

In 2005, The Straight Dope presented a summary of many of these arguments against Harding's membership, and noted that, while it might have been politically expedient for him to join the KKK in public, to do it in private would have been of no benefit to him.