Tag: Warren G. Harding

Running for president 1920-2020

This year’s race for president is an eerie repeat of the early days of the 1920 election season

Posted on by

A corrupt politician, a communist, a “government by expert” guy, and a pro-American iconoclast are running for president. This is 1920 all over again. The presidential election in 1920 was a very interesting one. At the end of the day, the race boiled down to a contest between the Republican

Continue reading

Obama’s election, like Harding’s, is one where we remember the voters as much as we remember the one for whom they voted

Posted on by

In 1920, for the first time, American women had the right to vote in a federal election.  Warren G. Harding won that election by a landslide and, rightly or wrongly, he went down as the president whose dashing good looks and insouciance so charmed American women that they put him

Continue reading