#warren harding

[facts-i-just-made-up]

Can you tell us about the Teapot Dome scandal?

The scandal happened in the 1920s when President Harding’s secretary, a guy named Fall, became the Fall guy for Harding’s disastrous performance of “I’m a Little Teapot.” Harding botched several lyrics, stating “Here is my dome” as he pointed to his hat. This is still considered the worst thing a U.S. president has ever done, with Trump’s attempts to violently overthrow the country and install a fascist dictatorship ranking a distant second.

#teapot dome scandal #warren harding #fall guys #politics #trump cw #unreality

[thatsbelievable]

#Did You Know? #facts #trivia #U.S. history #U.S. presidents #Warren G. Harding #Warren Harding #squirrels #ice cream #ice-cream cone #you can’t make this stuff up

[ruburnz]

john calvin “i wanna go home” coolidge

#warren harding #calvin coolidge #u.s. presidents #fanart #i usually just make committeeverse oc stuff but i drew this for a friend and was like #well it can go on the art blog i guess

[oldshowbiz]

Charles Forbes stole billions of dollars from world war veterans while working in the Harding Administration.

#warren harding #charles forbes #washington dc #1920s

[upinthetrees]

For all yall ppl who went to high school in the US remember when your US History teacher taught you about Warren Harding and was like "oh yeah he had an affair and it was discovered by the love letters he and the lady wrote to each other"

I just read a couple cause i was curious

And that shit sound like it's right out of helluva boss

#us history #warren harding

[socialisticle]

If I had a nickel for every president whose penis's name is publicly available, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

Jumbo(LBJ)

Jerry (Warren Harding)

#lbj #warren harding

[rabbitcruiser]

A team of rock climbers led by Warren Harding completed the first ascent of The Nose on El Capitan in Yosemite Valley on November 12, 1958.

#Warren Harding #first ascent #El Capitan #12 November 1958 #65th anniversary #Yosemite National Park #UNESCO world heritage site #California #US history #nature #Sierra Nevada #mountain #woods #forest #tourist attraction #travel #vacation #summer 2008 #landscape #countryside #pine #Yosemite Valley #Western USA #West Coast #mountaineering #Tunnel View #Half Dome #2022 #Olmsted Point

[rocklandhistoryblog]

#FBF News From Yesteryear

Image: Arthur S. Tompkins, courtesy Wikicommons.

August 4, 1923 – 100 YEARS AGO

Excerpt from the Nyack Evening Journal

 

TRIBUTE PAID TO LATE PRESIDENT BY GRAND MASTER

Justice Tompkins Says His Life Will Strengthen the Noble Purposes of Men Everywhere

President Harding was to have taken the thirty-third degree in Masonry on September 18 in the Scottish Rite Temple in New York City in the same class with Justice Arthur S. Tompkins, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Masons of New York State.

Justice Tompkins issued the following tribute to Mr. Harding last night:

"The Masonic fraternity, of which President Harding was an ardent, honored and active member, is bowed in sorrow as we mourn the death of our dear brother. He was an exemplar of our Craft and consistently exemplified the Masonic spirit –the spirit of fraternity and brotherhood, toleration, charity, peace and good will.

On many occasions, in public addresses, he emphasized the things for which Free Masonry stands, and manifested Masonite doctrine by his loving and unselfish service to his fellow men. Our Fraternity has lost its best known, and most prominent, and one of its most faithful and useful members. Our country has lost a safe and sane leader, at a time when we most need that kind of leadership, and the world is infinitely poorer today, because a great advocate of universal peace, justice and good will has passed on; but the influence of his character and consecrated life, and patriotic service, his innate kindness, and gentleness, and his gracious manner will abide to cheer the hearts, and bless the lives, and stimulate the patriotism, and strengthen the noble purposes of men everywhere."

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#RocklandCountyNY #RocklandCounty #RocklandHistory #LocalHistory #NYSHistory #HudsonRiverValley #HudsonValley #LowerHudsonValley #HSRC #HistoricalSocietyofRocklandCounty #HistoricalSociety #HistoryMuseum #arthurtomkins #warrenharding

#rockland history #local history #rocklandhistory #rockland county #nyshistory #nys history #orangetown #hudson river valley #Arthur Tompkins #Warren Harding

[sehallblog]

Digging History Magazine Volume 2023: Issue 1 is Out!

I’m a bit late posting this, but the first issue of 2023 is out and begins the year with an extended (two-part) series on the “Roaring Twenties”.  I originally planned to focus solely on the years 1920-1929, but after discovering how volatile the period of time between the end of World War I and the beginning of a new decade were, I decided to start out with an extensive look at 1919. I hope you…

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#anarchy #Calvin Coolidge #Carbon Petroleum Dubbs #election of 1920 #Great Molasses Flood of 1919 #Prohibition #race riots #Roaring Twenties #the decade that changed America #the Elaine Massacre #The Great Red Scare #The Red Summer of 1919 #Warren Harding #Woodrow Wilson #World War I

[rastronomicals]

7:47 AM EST December 15, 2022:

Al Stewart - "Warren Harding" From the album Past Present And Future

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

#Al Stewart #Past Present And Future #Warren Harding

[specialgrades]

— thinking about . . .

men who swear up and down they’re not into you— or men for that matter. men who flirt with women as often as they can. men who drink a little too much during a night out and start grinding against you in the dimly lit club you’re in. men who’s legs feel like jelly and skin feels hot as you guide their hips against yours. men who turn to putty as you drag them outside. men who forget every bit of elegance when they’re pinned against the wall. men who weakly beg for you to fuck them right there in the decrepit alleyway. men who wake up the next morning barely being able to walk and can’t look you in the eye now. men who sport dark hickeys and bite marks from you as they attempt to flirt with another girl to distract from how good you made them feel the night prior.

VINSMOKE SANJI, spirit albarn, ryusei shido, satoru gojo, michael kaiser, josuke higashikata, warren worthington iii

#🧋 ; thirsts. #male reader smut #wrote this purely for sanji. but it fits them as well #idc that shido gives hard dom vibes to the straight girlies!!! that man bottoms and he cries so prettily #dom male reader #top male reader #kinda shit but y’all get it right. we’re on a wavelength right #sanji x male reader #spirit albarn x male reader #ryusei shido x male reader #satoru gojo x male reader #michael kaiser x male reader #josuke higashikata x male reader #warren worthington iii x male reader #realized i should tag them. because i love attention

[moorheadthanyoucanhandle]

HEADS OF HEADS OF STATE

As far back as Your Humble Narrator can remember, I've loved PEZ. What's not to love, after all? It's a delicious candy--you may recall that Vern, in Stand By Me, had no doubt that he could subsist on nothing but cherry flavored PEZ for the rest of his life--and it's a toy. It's a toy that gives you candy.

Invented in Austria in the 1920s and originally marketed to adults as a substitute for tobacco, PEZ--the word is a compression of the German pfefferminz, or peppermint--began to sell dispensers with character heads for children in the 1950s and became an international brand. Of the many PEZ dispensers I had as a kid, I particularly prized the Halloweeny skulls and ogres, so I was delighted when The Wife found these Halloween mini-dispensers...

...to hand out for trick-or-treat this year.

As an adult, the first item I ever bid on and won on eBay was an old-school PEZ Easter Bunny with a curiously grave and sober expression; I've always referred to him as "Frowny Bunny," and he still lives on my desk...

This coming Friday, October 21, a documentary called The PEZ Outlaw, chronicling a particularly strange episode in the history of PEZ collecting, debuts on VOD; it's also slated to play at the Alice Gill-Sheldon Theatre in Sedona starting on October 28.

More on that remarkable film in a later post, but with all this PEZ-iness on my mind, the time has come to discuss my monument.

That's right, my monument.

A few years ago, in the depths of the previous Presidential administration, I hit upon an inspiration one day for a piece of public art. Not little piece, a big piece. An epic piece. A monument, carved into the side of a mountain. I'm not saying it would have needed to be on the scale of South Dakota's Mount Rushmore, but maybe one third the size, or one fifth. Maybe poor North Dakota could find a hillside somewhere, and offer an alternative to tourists.

Then one day, haunting a junkshop, I found something that made me revise my grandiose plans. Why allow a modern-day Gutzon Borglum to vandalize another perfectly lovely natural rockface, after all, and spend millions of public dollars and many years, when I could realize my idea on my own, for a few lousy bucks worth of PEZ?

What I had come across, you see, were a few random PEZ dispensers that I didn't know existed, depicting the Presidents of the United States. They were from a "PEZ Education Series" launched about a decade ago, issued in sets of five POTUS Dispensers at a time, starting with Washington and culminating with Obama (Obama's successor, mercifully, has not been officially PEZzed at this writing). So between that original haul and a bit of eBaying, over a few months I was able to obtain:

Franklin Pierce (served 1853-1857); who opposed the Abolitionist movement, signed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, enforced the Fugitive Slave Act, made a failed attempt to annex Cuba; the first and to date the only elected incumbent President not re-nominated by his own party...

James Buchanan (1857-1861); who continued Pierce's bungling and opposition to Abolition (despite claiming he was personally opposed to slavery), leading to the Secession of the southern states and making the Civil War inevitable...

Warren Gamaliel Harding (1921-1923); who filled his administration with crooked cronies that were implicated in multiple scandals, most famously the Teapot Dome oil lease affair which resulted in the conviction and imprisonment of Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall...

...and our own era's George W. Bush (2001-2009); who ignored security warnings about terrorist attacks before 9/11 and lied us into interminable wasteful wars in Afghanistan and Iraq in that tragedy's wake...

My fellow Americans, I give you...

MOUNT RUSHMORE COMPARED TO 45!

Dismal as they were, any of these four men, and any number of other Presidential hacks and bums and paranoids, would have been preferable to President 45. Decidedly preferable. Harding's offenses, most of them possibly unwitting on his part and only revealed after his untimely death in office, seem particularly quaint by 45's standards.

Thus my MRCT45 Monument stands tall--albeit only about 5 inches tall, and only on my desk--in symbolic tribute to all those who, though they may be inept clowns or moral cowards or shady creeps, still have some consideration, some tiny modicum of regard, some vague sense of responsibility, for their country, for the world, or for any human being other than themselves. It's a (dimly) shining memorial to the barest minimum in human decency.

Just so there's no misunderstanding, I should hasten to note that when I say these guys would be preferable, I mean that they would be preferable, as men. I'm not remotely suggesting, of course, that the social conditions and norms of the times in which they served would be preferable to the social conditions and norms of our times.

The toughest of these dispensers to find, by the way, was W. Bush; perhaps because he was part of the same set as Obama, and I wasn't willing to pay the upwards of $100 that this set goes for online. Finally I hunted him up, along with the other two non-Obama members of that set, presumably from a split-up set on eBay (the fifth dispenser in that box is of the Presidential Seal).

While scrounging to complete my grand vision, I did also accumulate a good bench of other Presidential mediocrities and rascals. I'd still like a Nixon, in case anybody wants to know what to get me for Christmas. But I have scored William Henry Harrison, Zachary Taylor, Herbert Hoover (a close also-ran for Harding's spot), Bill Clinton and W. Bush's Dad H. W. Bush...

Compared to 45, I need hardly say, they all seem monument-worthy...

#barack obama #george w bush #pez #the pez outlaw #franklin pierce #james buchanan #warren harding

[the-funtime-autocrat]

In just 882 days in office, Harding and his administration negotiated a formal agreement to end the Great War in Europe, bring home U.S. troops from the Rhineland in Germany and from parts of the Caribbean, improve relations with Mexico and Latin America, initiate and exhort the World War Foreign Debt Commission to find a solution to the mounting problem of crippling war debt, send food to starving millions in Russia, and call the first disarmament conference for the purpose of reducing the world’s most dangerous weapons. Yet these achievements are lost in what is labeled a failed presidency by the so-called experts.

Ryan Walters, “Warren Harding and FDR” (August 1st 2022).

#Warren Harding #American Politics #American Foreign Policy

[oldshowbiz]

Shocking Unpublished Facts about George S. Kaufman and President Harding

#warren harding #george s. kaufman #Fatty Arbuckle

[merdeslawoffice]

HARDING DRIVES NENANA GOLDEN SPIKE TO COMPLETE AKRR

On July 15, 1923, President Warren Harding drove the “Golden Spike” at Nenana. This signified the completion of the interior Alaska Railroad. Coincidentally, this also occurred during Harding’s “Voyage of Understanding” to both Alaska and Canada...READ MORE

#akrr #alaska railroad #nenana #president harding #warren harding #merdes law

[arthurtaylorlester]

podcast enjoyers i have made a Thing™

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