Warren Gamaliel Harding foi o 29º presidente dos Estados Unidos entre 1921 e 1923. Harding era um editor de jornal que serviu como membro do senado estadual e 28º vice-governador de Ohio e senador dos Estados Unidos. No senado, ele protegeu os interesses do álcool e apoiou moderadamente o sufrágio feminino. Ele foi o primeiro senador em exercício e o primeiro jornalista a ser eleito presidente.Harding era o candidato de conciliação na eleição presidencial de 1920, prometendo o retorno da nação a "normalidade" na forma de uma economia forte, independente da influência externa. Ele e o Partido Republicano desejavam distanciar-se do progressivismo que dominou o começo do século XX. Harding e Calvin Coolidge, seu running mate, derrotaram James M. Cox e Franklin D. Roosevelt na maior margem de vitória no voto popular desde que existem registros das votações.Harding originalmente queria colocar as "melhores mentes" em seu gabinete, nomeando Herbert Hoover como secretário do comércio e Charles Evans Hughes como secretário de estado. Entretanto, ele recompensou amigos e contribuintes, conhecidos como a Gangue de Ohio, com posições poderosas. Vários casos de corrupção ocorreram durante sua administração; um dos membros de seu gabinete e vários de seus nomeados foram presos. Harding conseguiu limpar a corrupção com o Departamento dos Veteranos. Apesar dos escândalos, muitos investigados e revelados após sua presidência, Harding teve realizações significativas.
Internamente, ele aprovou o primeiro programa de bem estar infantil dos Estados Unidos e lidou com trabalhadores em greve nas minas e nas ferrovias, apoiando períodos de trabalho de oito horas diárias. A taxa de desemprego caiu pela metade durante a administração Harding. Ele também conseguiu criar o Departamento de Orçamento, que ajudou a refrear e acompanhar as despesas federais. Harding defendeu um projeto de lei contra linchamentos para diminuir a violência contra os afro-americanos; porém os Democratas do sul do país e um Republicano proeminente barraram a legislação. Em assuntos internacionais, ele desdenhou a Sociedade das Nações e oficialmente encerrou a Primeira Guerra Mundial ao assinar separados acordos de paz com a Alemanha e Áustria. Harding foi o primeiro presidente a promover e implementar de forma bem sucedida um desarmamento naval mundial e pediu para os EUA participarem de uma corte internacional.
Em agosto de 1923, Harding desmaiou e morreu na Califórnia enquanto voltava de uma viagem para o Alaska, sendo sucedido por seu vice-presidente Calvin Coolidge.
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“Nossa tendência perigosa é esperar demais do governo, e ao mesmo tempo fazer pouco por ele.”
Our most dangerous tendency is to expect too much of government, and at the same time do for it too little.
discurso de posse (4 de Março de 1921); Complete US Presidential Inagural Addresses - página 215 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=cEiyLcWKQr8C&pg=PT227, Editora Forgotten Books, ISBN 1606209108, 9781606209103
Let the black man vote when he is fit to vote; prohibit the white man voting when he is unfit to vote.
Fonte: Discurso proferido para uma platéia segregado em Woodrow Wilson Park, em Birmingham, Alabama, publicada em Birmingham Post (27 de Outubro de 1921) citados em "Political Power in Birmingham" (Poder político em Birmingham), 1871-1921 (1977) por Carl V. Harris (1977) University of Tennessee Press, ISBN 087049211X
Only solitary men Know the full joys of friendship. Others have their family; but to a solitary and an exile his friends are everything
Warren G. Harding citado em "You're One Cool Cat" - página 15, Suzy Spafford - Harvest House Publishers, 2004, ISBN 0736914161, 9780736914161 - 48 páginas
Atribuídas
1918 address to the Sons and Daughters of the American Revolution.
“We want them to be Republican because of what we mean to do for the United States of America”
1920s, Nationalism and Americanism (1920)
Contexto: The misfortune is not alone that it rends the concord of nations. The greater pity is that it rends the concord of our citizenship at home. It's folly to think of blending Greek and Bulgar, Italian and Slovak, or making any of them rejoicingly American, when the land of adoption sits in judgement on the land from which he came. We need to be rescued from divisionary and fruitless pursuit of peace through super government. I do not want Americans of foreign birth making their party alignments on what we mean to do for some nation in the old world. We want them to be Republican because of what we mean to do for the United States of America. Our call is for unison, not rivaling sympathies. Our need is concord, not the antipathies of long inheritance.
1920s, Nationalism and Americanism (1920)
Contexto: The misfortune is not alone that it rends the concord of nations. The greater pity is that it rends the concord of our citizenship at home. It's folly to think of blending Greek and Bulgar, Italian and Slovak, or making any of them rejoicingly American, when the land of adoption sits in judgement on the land from which he came. We need to be rescued from divisionary and fruitless pursuit of peace through super government. I do not want Americans of foreign birth making their party alignments on what we mean to do for some nation in the old world. We want them to be Republican because of what we mean to do for the United States of America. Our call is for unison, not rivaling sympathies. Our need is concord, not the antipathies of long inheritance.
1920s, The American Soldier (1920)
Speech delivered in Birmingham, Alabama, quoted in the Christian Science Monitor, 27 October 1921, p. 2.
1920s
1910s, The Republic Must Awaken (1917)
1920s, The American Soldier (1920)
1910s, The Republic Must Awaken (1917)
1920s, The American Soldier (1920)
Speech delivered to a segregated, mixed race audience at Woodrow Wilson Park in Birmingham, Alabama on the occasion of the city's semicentennial, published in the Birmingham Post (27 October 1921).
1920s
Speech at Birmingham, Alabama, published in the Birmingham Post (27 October 1921) quoted in Political Power in Birmingham, 1871-1921 (1977) by Carl V. Harris (1977) University of Tennessee Press, ISBN 087049211X.
1920s
1920s, The American Soldier (1920)
“I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election.”
Actually an exchange between journalist Talcott Williams and Sen. Boies Penrose (1919)
What is Americanism?
Damn if I know, but it's going to be a damn good word with which to carry an election.
Misattributed
1920s, Nationalism and Americanism (1920)
1920s, The American Soldier (1920)
1920s, Nationalism and Americanism (1920)
Speech during Warren Harding's 1920 presidental campaign, critizing Woodrow Wilson's Haitian policies; quoted in Democracy at the Point of Bayonets (1999) by Mark Penceny, p. 2. (The Assistant Secretary of the Navy he refers to is Franklin Roosevelt, who was the Democratic vice-presidential candidate in 1920).
1920s
1920s, Nationalism and Americanism (1920)
Remark to editor William Alan White, as quoted in Thomas Harry Williams et al. (1959) A History of the United States.
1920s
1910s, The Republic Must Awaken (1917)
1910s, The Republic Must Awaken (1917)
Speech at Norfolk, Virginia (4 December 1920), quoted in The Times (6 December 1920), p. 17.
1920s
“I am not fit for this office and should never have been here.”
Quoted in Nicholas Murray Butler (1939) Across the Busy Years vol. 1.
1920s
Relayed by Bishop William F. Anderson as a remark by a friend of Harding, in "Pictures Harding as Man of Prayer" (2 April 1922) New York Times
Attributed
Speech https://books.google.com/books?id=POhHuoGILNYC&pg=PA51 (12 April 1921).
1920s
Speech in Boston, Massachusetts (24 May 1920); Harding is often thought to have coined the word "normalcy" in this speech, but the word is recorded as early as the 1850s as alternative to "normality".
1920s
1910s, The Republic Must Awaken (1917)
Inaugural address (4 March 1921).
1920s
Remark to Judson Welliver, as quoted in Francis Russell (1968) The Shadow of Blooming Grove.
1920s