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Warren G. Harding explains his unwillingness to have the U.S. join the League of Nations. Harding made it clear when he appointed Hughes as Secretary of State that the former justice would run foreign policy, a change from Wilson's hands-on management of international affairs. [ 126 ]
Presidency of Warren G. Harding collected news and commentary at The New York Times; Warren Harding: A Resource Guide, Library of Congress; Extensive essays on Warren Harding and shorter essays on each member of his cabinet and First Lady from the Miller Center of Public Affairs; Warren G. Harding at C-SPAN's American Presidents: Life Portraits
A presidential determination is a determination resulting in an official policy or position of the executive branch of the United States government. [2] A presidential proclamation is a statement issued by a president on a matter of public policy issued under specific authority granted to the president by Congress and typically on a matter of ...
The Teapot Dome scandal was a political corruption scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Warren G. Harding.It centered on Interior Secretary Albert Bacon Fall, who had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming, as well as two locations in California, to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. [1]
Signed into law by President Warren G. Harding on May 27, 1921 The Emergency Tariff of 1921 of the United States was enacted on May 27, 1921. The Underwood Tariff , passed under President Woodrow Wilson , had Republican leaders in the United States Congress rush to create a temporary measure to ease the plight of farmers until a better solution ...
Signed into law by President Warren G. Harding on May 19, 1921 The Emergency Quota Act , also known as the Emergency Immigration Act of 1921 , the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921 , the Per Centum Law , and the Johnson Quota Act (ch. 8, 42 Stat. 5 of May 19, 1921), was formulated mainly in response to the large influx of Southern and Eastern ...
Warren G. Harding was Florence's second husband. The pair married in 1891, and throughout the course of their marriage and Warren's political career, Florence was at her husband's side supporting him.
Ultimately Harding took Washington in a landslide beyond the late-October polls' prediction, defeating Cox by a 138,839 vote margin. Parley Christensen , the nominee of the recently created Farmer–Labor Party , performed very well in the state and nearly drove Cox into third place, with only 7,052 votes between the two.