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Return to Normalcy 1919-32 (Warren Harding 1912-23 (Achievements (cut gov…
Return to Normalcy 1919-32
Warren Harding 1912-23
context
surprise choice but won a landslide victory
largest popular vote margins after 1820
Raised in a small Ohio town
was accredited by bringing back the Marion Star newspaper from bankruptcy ( was his wife)
Missed more sessions than he attended
'less gov in business more business in gov'
Achievements
able appointments ie Mellon as treasury; Hoover as commerce and Hughes as State
Sheppard-Tower maternity Aid Act-
federal aid to states encouraging infant and maternity health centres
cut gov spending
Budget and Accounting Act 1920=$5,000 and 1922-43,333
Attempted to make gov more efficient calling for increase in fed gov role in economic and society
Limited federal gov reflected popular mood of the nation- achived aim of as little gov intervention , normalcy
1922 Ford-McCumber Act
-pushing tariffs eally high
Supported anti-lynching and anti-lynching laws
Budget reforms the presidential budget submitted annually to congress
Shortcomings
often described as one of the weakest and least effective presidents
extramarital affairs
return to normalcy, limited gov intervention =didn't do much
'Ohio Gang' appointments that in 1923 emerged from corruption ie Alien Custody accepted bribes and Veteran Bureau misappropriated $250 million
Teapot Dome Scandal
Secret leasing of federal oil reserves by Albert Bacon Fall in 1922 to Sinclair. Once known about he was told to stop
Supream court declared fraudulent and illegal
Only effected Harding's health and not the republicans