This Week in History

August 2, 1923, President Warren G. Harding died of a stroke in San Francisco. Harding had been on a presidential tour of the West Coast and Alaska. Harding had served as a senator of Ohio and won the Republican presidential nomination in 1920 following a deadlock of several prominent candidates. His campaign pledge was “return to normalcy,” after World War 1. His promise was to appoint the “best...