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March 4, 2023

100 Years Ago, President Played Golf and Fished in Florida in an Attempt to Rebound from Influenza

One hundred years ago this month, President Harding and his wife, Florence, were in Florida as the president slowly regained his strength from a nasty bout of the flu in January. The flu was perhaps a bit worse than the public knew, and Harding was slow to recover. That illness also possibly caused some damage […]

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January 28, 2023

2023 Marks 100th Anniversary of Harding ‘Voyage’

One hundred years ago this month, President Warren Harding announced that he planned to go to Alaska in the summer to get a first-hand feel for how the nation should develop — and protect — the territory’s bounty of natural resources. Harding labeled his ambitious trip of eight weeks the “Voyage of Understanding.” The idea […]

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December 8, 2022

Warren G. Harding: On The Air The Centennial of the First Broadcast of a Presidential Annual Message to the Congress December 8, 1922

By Jerry L. Wallace A century ago, at noontime, Friday, December 8, 1922, President Warren G. Harding strolled to the rostrum of the House of Representatives (1). There he was greeted, amid enthusiastic applause from the floor and galleries, by Speaker Frederick H. Gillette and President pro Tempore of the Senate, Albert B. Cummins. The […]

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September 2, 2022

What is the Real Story about President Harding’s Papers?

By Sherry Hall, Former Site Manager of the Harding Presidential Sites With the recent media coverage about former President Trump and presidential papers at Mar- a-Lago, you may have caught a couple of references to the Harding Presidential Papers. The references centered around the persistent, 100- year rumor that Florence Harding burned all of the Harding Presidential […]