1. REPUBLICAN RESURGENCE AND DECLINE
CHAPTER 27
PART I

2. DISSOLUTION OF COALITION
EFFECTS OF WAR
ATTITUDES TOWARD LABOR
WILSON UNSYMPATHIC TO STRIKERS
AGRICULTURAL PRICES
FARMERS’ WARTIME PRICE CONTROLS
INTELLECTUALS’ DISILLUSIONMENT
BUSINESS CIVILIZATION
“WELFARE CAPITALISM” BUSINESS VALUES

3. SURVIVALS OF PROGRESSIVISM
CONTROL OF CONGRESS
LOCAL AND STATE GOVERNMENT
MORAL RIGHTEOUSNESS
“IT IS ONLY ONCE IN A GENERATION THAT A PEOPLE CAN BE LIFTED ABOVE MATERIAL THINGS. THAT IS WHY CONSERVATIVE GOVERNMENT IS IN THE SADDLE TWO-THIRDS OF THE TIME”
--WOODROW WILSON

4. progressivism

5. ELECTION OF 1920 JAMES COX V. WARREN G. HARDING HARDING AND NORMALCY
BREAKUP OF WILSON COALITION
ELECTION OF WILLIAM G. HARDING
HARDING PROMISED TO “SAFEGUARD AMERICAN FIRST…TO EXALT AMERICA FIRST, TO LIVE FOR AND REVERE AMERICAN FIRST” (Tindall and Shi, 992)

6. "America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration." -Warren G. Harding
WARREN AND FLORENCE HARDING

7. HARDING ADMINISTRATION
HARDING APPOINTMENTS “OHIO GANG”
Some notable and some shady fellows
EFFORTS FOR ECONOMY
Andrew Mellon, Treasury Department
Increase tariffs, reduce govt. spending, lower taxes
Decreased taxes for wealthy, increased speculation on Wall Street
WWI – U.S. became creditor nation (not debtor)
Led to increased economic expansion
Higher tariffs on European powers made it harder for them to sell products in U.S. and pay back debt
For nearly 10 years, American loans/investments sent more $ abroad

8. HARDING (CONT.) DEREGULATION OF AGENCIES OPPOSITION TO RACISM
LESS CONTROL OVER CORPORATIONS
OPPOSITION TO RACISM
BLACKS ALLOWED TO HOLD FEDERAL POSITIONS
ATTACKED KU KLUX KLAN
CORRUPTION & SCANDAL
In Veteran’s Bureau, Justice Department

9. Teapot Dome Scandal
“My God, this is a hell of a job! I have no trouble with my enemies, I can take care of my enemies all right. But my damn friends, my God-damn friends…They’re the ones that keep me walking the floor night!”
-William G. Harding (1923)

10. TEAPOT TROUBLE WY/CA OIL RESERVE
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT ALBERT B. FALL SIGNED CONTRACTS WITH COMPANIES AND POCKETED THE $ (ABOUT ½ MILLION)
FOUND GUILTY 1929, FORCED TO PAY BACK $100,000
TEAPOT
TROUBLE

11. HARDING’S DEATH
FOOD POISONING IN SEATTLE; HEART ATTACK (BELIEVED) IN SAN FRANCISCO
NATION MOURNED HIS DEATH, UNTIL DETAILS OF HIS PERSONAL LIFE BEGAN TO EMERGE
SCANDALS HIT COURT SYSTEMS, SENSATIONAL BOOKS/LETTERS DETAILING HIS AFFAIRS

13. LEGACY
-CONTROVERSIAL, EVEN TODAY
-”PROBABLY SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN PRESIDENT”

14. COOL CAL
CALVIN WAS SWORN IN BY HIS FATHER, JOHN, IN PLYMOUTH, VERMONT, HIS BIRTHPLACE, BY LIGHT OF A KEROSENE LAMP

15. SILENT SLEEPER 12 HRS/DAY; DAILY AFTERNOON NAP SIMPLE, DIRECT
FEW WORDS
CONSERVATIVE
PRO- BIG BUSINESS
DECREASED GOVT. REGULATION
REDUCE TAXES

16. PURE COOLIDGE
“FOUR-FIFTHS OF OUR TROUBLES WOULD DISAPPEAR IF WE WOULD SIT DOWN AND KEEP STILL” (C. C.)
“…SLEPT MORE THAN ANY OTHER PRESIDENT…” (H.L. MENCKEN)
SHORTEST INAUGURAL SPEECH EVER…4 SENTENCES!!!
“THE CHIEF BUSINESS OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE IS BUSINESS”

17. “KEEP COOL WITH COOLIDGE” 3 CANDIDATES:
1924 CAMPAIGN
“KEEP COOL WITH COOLIDGE”
3 CANDIDATES:
JOHN W. DAVIS (D)
CALVIN COOLIDGE (R)
ROBERT LA FOLLETTE (PROGRESSIVE)
COOLIDGE WON, BUT LARGEST POPULAR VOTE EVER FOR 3RD PARTY CANDIDATE