Day 73 Warren Harding

Pale moon shining on the fields below

Folks are crooning songs soft & low

Needn't tell me so because I knowIt is sleepy time down southSoft winds blowing through the

pinewood treesFolks down there like a life of easeWhen old mammy falls upon her

kneesIt is sleepy time down southSteamboats on the river a coming

or a goingSplashing the night awayHear those banjos ringing, the

people are singingThey dance til the break of day, hey

Dear old southland with his dreamy songsTakes me back there where I belongHow I would love to be in my mammy's armsWhen it is sleepy time way down south

Dear old southland with his dreamy songsTake me back there where I belongHow I would love to be in my mammy's armsWhen it is sleepy time down southSleepy time down south

Warren Harding

“ America’s present need is not heroic, but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; … not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.”

Warren Harding (Pres. #29)

• Signs Kellogg Braid Act to eliminate war

• Cut taxes for wealthy to promote spending

• High Tariffs to recuperate loans from France and GB- Fordney Mccumber makes it so that GB and France can’t sell enough goods

• Dawes Plan – Loan to Germany to repay England and France for war

Scandal

• Graft in the Cabinet• Ohio Gang- Friends of Harding• Charles Forbes- Illegally sells supplies

intended for Veterans• Thomas Miller- caught taking bribes• Teapot Dome Scandal- Albert B. Fall

(Secretary of Interior) Takes Naval oil Reserves in Wyoming owned

• Charles Evans Hughes goes from secretary of state to Chief Justice

• Harding dies of heart attack- VP Calvin Coolidge becomes president

Summary Questions

1) What was the purpose of the Kellogg- Briand Pact?

2) Due to what Tariff were Britain and France unable to pay off their war debts?

3) What was the Dawes Plan?

4) Who were the Ohio Gang?

5) Who owned Teapot Dome prior to the scandal?

6) Who was President Harding's secretary of state?