By Mike Barrett, Ashburn, Va.
Monday, Nov. 25, 2024 | 2 a.m.
I’m studying with renewed curiosity about our president who received a shocking victory despite his extramarital affairs and hush cash funds to his mistress. Extra disturbing, his presidential appointments going to dishonest political cronies, a number of of whom had been responsible of crimes.
No, I’m not speaking about Donald Trump. I’m referring to Warren G. Harding.
Christopher Klein writes on historical past.com: “(S)candals involving funds of hush cash to hide extramarital affairs … and felony exercise by cronies he appointed to excessive workplace (together with the Teapot Dome Scandal involving oil leases in Wyoming and California) tarnished his legacy. The twenty ninth chief govt now occupies the underside rungs of historians’ rankings of U.S. presidents.”
Years in the past, I graduated from Warren G. Harding Excessive College in Los Angeles. By the point I bought there, his title had been faraway from all the things however the wrought iron railings. It’s now known as College Excessive College.
Harding’s time period in workplace now lives in infamy. Let’s hope Trump’s legacy doesn’t meet the identical destiny.
