Warren Harding 
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SOURCE: The Bulwark
7/14/2020
Presidential Pardons and the Spirit of Clemency
by Ron Radosh
It is difficult to imagine, in these divided and troubling days, that our nation once had a conservative Republican president who believed that a socialist like Debs was just an American citizen with whom he disagreed, not an enemy who ought to be destroyed.
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SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
5/19/2020
Warren Harding Tried to Return America to ‘Normalcy’ After WWI and the 1918 Pandemic. It Failed.
by William Deverell
The lessons from his presidency show that a quick retreat to the past can be just a mirage.
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SOURCE: National Review
6/6/19
Warren Harding Was a Better President Than We Think
by David Harsanyi
An analysis of presidential rankings and a defense of Warren G. Harding.
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SOURCE: Bloomberg
4/20/19
Trump’s Taxes Are Fair Game. Just Ask Warren Harding.
by Stephen Mihm
The Teapot Dome corruption scandal resulted in a 1924 law that gives the House Ways and Means Committee authority to demand returns.
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SOURCE: NYT
8-27-15
Ron Radosh and Allis Radosh plan to defend Warren Harding in a new book
by Ron Radosh and Allis Radosh
They outlined their defense in an op ed in the NYT this past week.
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SOURCE: NYT
8-18-15
DNA Shows Warren Harding Wasn’t America’s First Black President
Rumors about his racial ancestry formed a subplot that played out during his lifetime.
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8-13-15
Refresher Course: How Bad Was the Corruption in Warren Harding's Administration? This Bad.
by Rick Shenkman
Here's why he deserves the bad reputation he earned (and it has nothing to do with his womanizing).
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SOURCE: Daily Beast
8-8-14
John Dean says he convinced Arthur Schlesinger that Warren Harding's gotten a bum rap
by Scott Porch
"There’s a lot of garbage out there. It’s one of those things where he has been tarred and feathered with Teapot Dome. From everything I can find, he’s not involved."--John Dean
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SOURCE: Library of Congress
7-29-14
President Warren Harding’s Love Letters Open to the Public
Taken as a whole, the correspondence sheds light on a man in love on the eve of his presidency and a country on the brink of World War I.
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SOURCE: Slate
7-16-14
What If Warren Harding Wasn’t a Terrible President?
by Ronald Radosh and Allis Radosh
A much-maligned chief executive, reconsidered.
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SOURCE: NYT
7-7-14
Read Warren Harding's Love Letters
"I love you more than all the world and have no hope of reward on earth or hereafter, so precious as that in your dear arms, in your thrilling lips, in your matchless breasts."
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SOURCE: NYT
7-7-14
The Letters That Warren G. Harding’s Family Didn’t Want You to See
by Jordan Michael Smith
The correspondence is intimate and frank — and perhaps the most sexually explicit ever by an American president.
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