<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="01" > preface</h1>
Americans know that Harding is a master of stealing, and they all know that Harding is one of the worst presidents in the United States.
Harding is a master of stealing and one of the worst presidents in the United States
Harding, full name Warren Gamaliel Harding, was born on November 2, 1865 in a small village in Ohio, and won the 1920 U.S. presidential race and was sworn in as the 29th president of the United States in 1921. In the ranking of presidents in the polls of relevant US agencies over the years, Harding has always been in the bottom few, and has repeatedly ranked first from the bottom.
The reason why Harding is recognized by americans as one of the worst presidents is that when he was president, he was not only keen on extramarital affairs, but also nepotism, no intention of asking politics, frequent corruption in the cabinet, scandals, and the government's prestige and achievements.
Harding is posing with a beloved dog at the White House
Today, the author does not write about Harding's cabinet scandals and bad political achievements, but writes about his marriage, extramarital affairs and illegitimate daughters, interpreting Harding from another side.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="02" > Hading married a rich sister who was 5 years older than him and had a child</h1>
Harding's father was originally a farmer, who later worked as a soldier, taught, and practiced medicine, and his mother was a village midwife.
Harding in his youth
In college, Harding studied printing and newspapers, and after graduation he worked as a teacher, worked in law firms, sold insurance, and worked as a journalist.
One day, Harding saw that the marion Daily Star was about to be resold, so he found two friends and raised $300 to buy the pitifully small newspaper. Unexpectedly, Harding ran this newspaper very well, which attracted the attention of readers. Soon his friend received it when he saw it and transferred all the shares to Harding, who became the owner and sole proprietor of the Star Newspaper.
Harding, who deliberately grew a beard
Harding was handsome, ran a newspaper business, and was full of economy, which fascinated local women. Among the many suitors, a rich sister named Florence did everything in her power to cling to Harding.
Florence was divorced with a child, the eldest Harding, at the age of 5. She is the daughter of a local real estate merchant, and her family is prominent, but the remarks and political views of the Harding Star are contrary to the interests of their family, and Florence's father has long regarded Harding as his own enemy. Coupled with the small size of Harding's Star, Harding was a poor boy, and Florence's father did not look up to Harding at all, and he strongly opposed his daughter's association with Harding.
Florence, daughter of a wealthy merchant
Love is like this, the more Florence's father opposes, the more Florence is desperate to obsess over Harding, she said that even if the father-daughter relationship is severed, it is not Harding not to marry.
Unable to resist the temptation of women's pursuits and wealth, Harding, who had never been married, finally fell under Florence's pomegranate skirt and married Florence in 1891.
Florence's parents were so angry with their rebellious daughter that they not only did not attend their daughter's remarriage, but also cut off contact with her for 8 years.
Harding and Florence at the time of marriage
Raised in a wealthy merchant family, Florence was a business-minded and political visionary, helping Harding run the newspaper business on the one hand and leading Harding step by step into politics until Harding became president. Unfortunately, she and Harding have been unable to have children.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="03" > ha's wife who cheated on a good friend in a betrothal marriage for 15 years, lied and became the president of the United States</h1>
Florence the Great Harding was 5 years old, had a history of marriage, married Harding with a child and could not have children, which may have caused Harding's mental imbalance and led to his infidelity.
Harding and Florence in their later years
In 1905, he fell in love with Phillips, the wife of his old friend, Department Store owner James. Phillips Wasing, 8 years old, very smart and beautiful, she once asked Harding to divorce first, then she left, and then she wanted to marry Harding in good faith. But Harding was reluctant to let go of the wise, gold-filled Florence and refused to divorce.
Harding's affair with Phillips lingered for 15 years under the eyes of his old friend James and his wife Florence, during which Harding wrote a large number of colorful and passionate love letters to Phillips, and more than 250 of them have been preserved.
Phillips, who had been entangled with Harding for 15 years
Harding was obsessed with giving his genitals the nickname "Jerry", and he repeatedly mentioned in his love letters to Phillips: "I'm going to send Jerry to you so that you can enjoy bliss." Harding is said to have also photographed his own "Jerry" and sent the photo to Phillips.
Because Harding's love letters are too revealing, at the request of Harding's descendants, the Ohio state court has collected all the love letters of Harding that have been exiled to the people and sealed them for protection. The period of protection is the 100th anniversary of Harding's death, that is, until August 2023, when the love letters can be fully declassified and exposed to the public. Some US media ridiculed and suggested that the White House government should give people who are at the age of talking about marriage a day off, so that they can read the love letters of former President Harding.
Harding during the presidency
Harding interrupted his extramarital affair with Phillips because of a U.S. presidential election in 1920.
Harding belonged to the Republican faction, and under the long-term planning, promotion, and strategizing of his wife Florence, Harding had become the leader of the second echelon of the Republican Party by 1920. In 1920, the US presidential election coincided with a fierce competition between Republicans and Democrats for the presidency.
Three of the Republican leaders in the first echelon at the time competed for the party's presidential nomination, and they were evenly matched, with different small groups behind them, and it was difficult for anyone to obtain a majority of votes to obtain the party's presidential nomination.
Time is not waiting for people, how to break the deadlock? Several big men in the Republican Party invariably set their sights on Harding, a good old man in the second echelon who had not yet intervened in the small group faction, and decided to come up with a compromise plan to nominate Harding as the party's presidential candidate.
They summonEdding to a smoky chamber to explain their intentions, and then asked Harding if there was anything disgraceful that would be used as a handle or attack by his opponents. Harding said to give him 10 minutes to review, and after 10 minutes he flatly said no.
In fact, Harding lied. His extramarital affair with his wife, Phillips, has been going on for 15 years and is still ongoing.
The Republican bigwigs believed harding, and Harding soon won a majority of votes within the party to become the only Republican presidential candidate, and began to compete with the Democratic presidential candidate Cox for votes across the country.
As soon as the bipartisan rivalry began, the Republican Party received top-secret information: Harding had an extramarital affair, please deal with it urgently.
Bipartisan presidential contenders, Harding (left, Republican), Cox (right, Democrat)
It is too late to change people, what to do? This is no longer a purely Harding's personal problem, it is related to the success or failure of the Republican Party, honor and disgrace.
At this time, the Republican Party was united as never before, and several unprecedented decisions were made at the same time:
First, he continued to defend Harding with all his might; second, he paid Phillips a one-time payment of $50,000 to let her family leave the United States and live in Japan, giving her a monthly living allowance; third, the matter was listed as the highest secret in the party.
In the end, Harding's extramarital affair scandal was covered by death, and he defeated the Democratic Cox by absolute margin in the campaign, and was sworn in as the 29th president of the United States on March 4, 1921.
Harding was sworn in as the 29th President
Now Americans usually refer to the act of concealing the truth for profit as "Harding lying" and improper decisions made because of omissions as "Harding mistakes."
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="04" > Harding's nature is difficult to move, and after entering the White House, he developed a relationship with a friend's daughter and gave birth to an illegitimate daughter</h1>
After Harding's old lover Phillips moved to Japan, it was already difficult for him to continue his relationship with her, and it was even more impossible to meet Qingqing and me. At this time, the unshakable Harding actually developed a relationship with the daughter of a doctor friend, Britton, and gave birth to an illegitimate daughter.
Another of Harding's extramarital lovers, Britton
Britton had always admired Harding, and in her early years she hung pictures of Harding, who was still just a senator, and this worship was even more unacceptable after Harding became president.
Harding was a no-brainer to the young Britton, and often met her in a small room next to the Oval Office in the White House.
Four years after Harding's death, in 1927, Britton wrote a book called The President's Daughter, which detailed her relationship with Harding and claimed that she and Harding had an illegitimate daughter, named Elizabeth Ann. She also said that Harding had not met her illegitimate daughter Elizabeth, but had paid a large amount of alimony for Elizabeth's upbringing.
Britton once proposed to the court in Elizabeth's name to inherit Harding's inheritance, but due to insufficient evidence, he finally lost the case and did not get half a cent.
Harding's former residence
Elizabeth, who refused to mention her origins as an adult, lived to be more than eighty years old and died of illness in 2005. 10 years after her death, her descendants did not want to endlessly dwell on Elizabeth's origins, and in 2015, a DNA test was done for Elizabeth, which confirmed that Elizabeth's biological father was Harding.
<h1 class="pgc-h-decimal" data-index="05" > about Harding's early death</h1>
Harding was a president who died prematurely in office, took the oath of office on March 4, 1921, and died on August 2, 1923, serving less than two and a half years as president.
President Harding (first from left) poses with members of his Cabinet
In June 1923, Harding decided to take a trip to all the states of the country to investigate the people's sentiments and preach the policies of the White House, which he called the "journey of understanding".
At the end of July, Harding began to feel unwell during the expedition. Officials accompanying him later revealed to the media that he had been physically and mentally exhausted by corruption scandals among the cabinet ministers appointed by Harding for some time.
First Lady Florence
On August 2, the President's delegation stayed at the Palace Hotel in San Francisco. In the evening, Florence, the first lady who accompanied the expedition, urgently called the doctor to the presidential suite. She told the doctor that she was reading a newspaper to her husband, Harding, when she suddenly found that Harding was out of breath.
The accompanying presidential doctor nervously rescued, the result was powerless, and that night he announced that President Harding had died of heart arrest at the age of 58.
Harding's coffin passed through the White House
For the cause of Harding's death, some said it was food poisoning, some said it was stroke, some said it was pneumonia, some said it was myocardial infarction, and finally the official conclusion was that he died of a heart attack.
Strangely enough, Mrs. Harding, Florence, refused an autopsy. This has led to a lot of folk speculation, some people believe that Harding died at the hands of his wife, based on Harding's extramarital affair that made her intolerable. Meehans, in his book The Strange Death of President Harding, holds this view.
Harding Memorial Hall in Marion
More than a year after The death of President Harding, on November 21, 1924, Harding's wife Florence also died of kidney failure. Florence and Harding were buried together in the Marien Harding Memorial Hall, and their merits and deeds, including marriage and love history, were left to the world to comment.
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