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A new bill had been passed under Harding that designated the Government, rather than the President, as the tab-lifter for official meals.
* 1923 – As vice president, Calvin Coolidge becomes the 30th President of the United States after the death of Warren G. Harding
Soon after, he was elected as the 29th Vice President in 1920 and succeeded to the Presidency upon the sudden death of Warren G. Harding in 1923.
* 1922 – President Warren G. Harding introduces the first radio in the White House.
Although he continued to consider Harding ill-suited to be President, the two men nevertheless became friends.
* 1921 – U. S. President Warren G. Harding appoints former President William Howard Taft Chief Justice of the United States.
* 1921 – The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.
* 1865 – Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States ( d. 1923 )
President Warren G. Harding also invited his Vice President, Calvin Coolidge, to meetings.
Warren Gamaliel Harding ( November 2, 1865 – August 2, 1923 ) was the 29th President of the United States ( 1921 – 1923 ).
Harding departed from the progressive movement that had dominated Congress since President Theodore Roosevelt.
President Harding rewarded friends and political contributors, referred to as the Ohio Gang, with financially powerful positions.
In August 1923, President Harding suddenly collapsed and died during a stop in California on a return trip from Alaska.
Historians have traditionally been resistant to giving Harding good presidential reviews due to the multiple federal department scandals during his administration ; as a result, Harding has received low rankings as President.
President Harding contended with racial problems on a national level, rather than sectional, and openly advocated African American political, educational, and economic equality inside the Solid South.
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.
In 1918, when Theodore Roosevelt was entertaining plans ( later abandoned ) to reprise his presidency, he considered Harding had strong potential to run and serve as Vice President, and discussed with Harry Daugherty the desirability of having Harding on his ticket.
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According to biographers, Harding got along better with the press than any other previous President, being a former newspaperman.
The same poll ranked President Harding 26 in the Ability to Compromise category.
Eugene Debs after release from prison by President Harding visited the White House.

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John Adams fashioned much of pre-Revolutionary radical ideology, wrote the constitution of his home state of Massachusetts, negotiated, with Franklin and Jay, the peace with Britain and served as our first Vice President and our second President.
In his journal for November 6, 1860, he wrote: " At Town House, and cast my vote for Lincoln and the Republican candidates generally — the first vote I ever cast for a President and State officers.
Living first in Philadelphia, then seeking refuge close in Virginia, he wrote a book entitled The Prospect Before Us ( read and approved by Vice President Jefferson before publication ) in which he called the Adams administration a " continual tempest of malignant passions " and the President a " repulsive pedant, a gross hypocrite and an unprincipled oppressor ".
Bardot wrote a 1999 letter to Chinese President Jiang Zemin, published in French magazine VSD, in which she accused the Chinese of " torturing bears and killing the world's last tigers and rhinos to make aphrodisiacs ".
In 2007 President Paul W. Gooch wrote that Gate House undertook an " escalating series of actions " that were " defiant " and " disparaging of women ", in response to Gate members constructing a 2. 5-metre snow penis and placing a cooked pig's head in an Annesley bathroom.
General George C. Marshall, in a memorandum to President Franklin D. Roosevelt dated 3 February 1944, wrote
Sending antiaircraft missiles into Cuba, he reasoned, “ made sense only if Moscow intended to use them to shield a base for ballistic missiles aimed at the United States .” On August 10, he wrote a memo to President Kennedy in which he guessed that the Soviets were preparing to introduce ballistic missiles into Cuba.
Due to his frustration with the stalemated peace process with Ethiopia, the President of Eritrea Isaias Afewerki wrote a series of Eleven Letters to the UN Security Council and Secretary-General Kofi Annan.
In February he again wrote for his support, this time for the office of President of Wales.
Thomas Jefferson, the third President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence, wrote: " Bacon, Locke and Newton.
European Commission President José Manuel Barroso wrote to Prime Minister Viktor Orbán stating that new central bank regulations, allowing political intervention, " seriously harm " Hungary's interests, postponing talks on a financial aid package.
Plischke wrote a 1997 account of visiting Kennedy at the White House weeks before the trip to help compose the speech and teach him the proper pronunciation ; she also claims that the phrase had been translated stateside already by the translator scheduled to accompany him on the trip (" a rather unpleasant man who complained bitterly that he had had to interrupt his vacation just to watch the President ’ s mannerisms ").
Weinberger wrote that Reagan said " he could answer to charges of illegality but couldn't answer to the charge that ' big strong President Reagan passed up a chance to free the hostages.
During the conflict, Nehru wrote two desperate letters to U. S. President John F. Kennedy, requesting 12 squadrons of fighter jets and a modern radar system.
The government asserts it can detain American citizens " not because there is evidence that they have committed a crime, but merely because the government wishes to investigate them for possible wrongdoing ," wrote Judge Smith, an appointee of former President George W. Bush.
Stanford President David Starr Jordan later wrote, " Somebody – Dr. Angell, perhaps – remarked that ' Agassiz was great in the abstract but not in the concrete.
In his autobiography, From Jerusalem to Munich, first published in France in 1999, and later in a written interview with Sports Illustrated, Abu Daoud wrote that funds for Munich were provided by Mahmoud Abbas, Chairman of the PLO since 11 November 2004 and President of the Palestinian National Authority since 15 January 2005.
While the President was recuperating in the hospital after the 1981 assassination attempt, Nancy Reagan wrote in her diary, " Nothing can happen to my Ronnie.
Yasser Arafat wrote letters to President Clinton and Prime Minister Blair in January 1998 explicitly listing the articles of the Charter referred to in the PNC's 1996 vote.
Trudeau wrote in his memoirs that U. S. President Gerald Ford arranged this, and expressed sincere appreciation.
However in 1982 Thatcher wrote to President Reagan to request the United Kingdom be allowed to procure the Trident II ( Trident D5 ) system, the procurement of which had been accelerated by the US Navy.
James McPherson, President of the American Historical Association in 2003, wrote that some would want revisionist history understood as,a consciously falsified or distorted interpretation of the past to serve partisan or ideological purposes in the present .” Broadly understood, there are two motivations behind revisionist history: the ability to control ideological influence and to control political influence.
In the spring of 1861, shortly before the beginning of the American Civil War, the government of San Marino wrote a letter ( in " perfect Italian on one side, and imperfect but clear English on the other ") to United States President Abraham Lincoln, proposing an " alliance " between the two democratic nations and offering the President honorary San Marino citizenship.

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