1. Warren G. Harding pg 61 29th President Conservative Republican
“America’s present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums (fake cures) but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise (stability); not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality”
29th President
Conservative Republican
Advocated a “return to normalcy”
Died in office

2. Return to Normalcy
Americans were tired of Woodrow Wilson and his high ideals “Make the world safe for democracy”
Americans returned to a policy of isolationism
Causes: WWI Disillusionment and labor unrest/radicals
Effects: No League of Nations, higher tariffs, less international trade, limit immigration

3. Return to Normalcy cont.
Reduced income, business, and inheritance taxes by 50%
Lower taxes = more disposable income = more spending = better economy

4. Return to Normalcy cont.
Business Policies became more laissez-faire
Stopped regulation policies started during the Progressive Era
More laissez-faire – less government involvement (Gilded Age and Roaring Twenties)
Examples?
Less laissez-faire – more government involvement (Progressive Era)

5. Harding’s Cabinet He made some good choices
Herbert Hoover – Secretary of Commerce
Evan Hughes – Secretary of State
Andrew Melon – Secretary of Treasury
He also made some bad choices and placed friends and supporters in positions in which they were not qualified.
Albert B. Falls – Secretary of Interior

6. Teapot Dome Scandal Scandal’s plagued Harding’s presidency
Usually involved his appointees and not himself
Fall secretly gave oil-drilling rights on government property in Teapot Dome, Wyoming to two private oil companies
In return, Fall received more
than $300,000 disguised as loans

7. Harding’s Twitter Include the following on the fake Twitter page:
A picture of Warren Harding
A follower list
You must have one tweet and response for each of these topics:
Isolationism
Business Policies
Reduction of Taxes
The Teapot Dome Scandal