Warren G. Harding 
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SOURCE: MSNBC
7/25/2021
The President Who Beats Donald Trump at Corruption
by Kevin M. Kruse
"To find the real counterpart to Trump’s gang of money-grubbing grifters, we need to look back a century to the crime-riddled administration of Warren G. Harding."
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SOURCE: New York Times
12/1/2020
Exhume the Body of Warren G. Harding? A Judge Says That Won’t Be Necessary
Previously resistant descendants of Warren G. Harding had denied proof based on commercial DNA testing that plaintiff James Blaesing was Harding's grandson. With exhumation looming, they conceded that Blaesing was a descendant of Harding and mistress Nan Britton.
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SOURCE: BBC
9/14/2020
Warren Harding: Grandson of Former US President Asks to Exhume His Remains
Members of Warren Harding's family have accepted DNA evidence of the paternity of the former president's daughter. Harding's grandson today seeks to have the body exhumed for further testing, possibly to spite the organization that runs the Harding Memorial.
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SOURCE: The New Yorker
9/14/2020
How the Promise of Normalcy Won the 1920 Election
The Warren Harding presidency promised a return to normalcy after war, pandemic, political unrest and racial violence. The promise proved illusory.
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9/13/2020
The "Noble Dead": Warren Harding and the Resting Places of the WWI Fallen
by James D. Robenalt
Just as Americans visit and revere the graves of those in Arlington and other national cemeteries in the United States, it is important to remember that the nation made a solemn compact with the families of those who were lost in the First World War.
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SOURCE: Bill Moyers
7/22/2020
Historic Levels, but Not the Good Kind
by Heather Cox Richardson
Warren G. Harding created an atmosphere in which the point of government was not to help ordinary Americans, but to see how much leaders could get out of it.
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SOURCE: Washington Post
6/21/2020
The Republican President who Called for Racial Justice in America after Tulsa Massacre
Warren G. Harding’s comments about race and equality were remarkable for 1921.
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