Marion, Ohio was the hometown of Warren G. Harding, until recently considered the worst president in U.S. history. The memorial itself is quite impressive. President and Mrs. Harding buried there. Harding's mistress, Carrie Fulton Phillips, who was given a trip to Japan, a payment of $50,000 and monthly payments thereafter to get her out of the country before the 1920 elections, is buried elsewhere. Another Marion woman, Nan Britton, who was thirty years younger than Harding, claimed that he fathered her child, possibly in a coat closet off the Oval Office. Harding was elected president with 60% of the vote, largely because he supported women's suffrage as a senator and was popular with women in their first opportunity to vote for president.
"...until recently considered the worst president in U.S. history."
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Posted by: cheryl | 30 July 2007 at 07:50 AM
I still put my nod to Franklin Pierce as worst president...
Posted by: Cat | 30 July 2007 at 11:29 AM
ha! good stuff, joe.
Posted by: tien | 30 July 2007 at 05:27 PM
I remember learning about the Teapot Dome scandal and that Harding's administration was corrupt but I never knew about his womanizing, or that he himself knew he was out of his league as president, until yesterday.
Posted by: Joe | 30 July 2007 at 07:57 PM
Nice slice of American history! It is a nice moment though.
Posted by: Berry | 31 July 2007 at 10:56 PM
Nice slice of American history! It is a nice monument though.
Posted by: Berry | 31 July 2007 at 10:57 PM