re: #253 HappyWarrior

Yep. TBH Coolidge is the worst of the 20’s Presidents imo.

The much-vilified Warren Harding was actually a better President in many respects and his stock has improved among legitimate (ie non-wingnut) historians in recent years.

Harding’s administration was almost comically corrupt, but it also had some solid accomplishments, including the Washington Naval Treaty. He was probably the strongest civil rights president between the two Roosevelts, a stark contrast to his Republican successors, Coolidge and Hoover, let alone to the segregationist Democrats of the time. He supported a federal anti-lynching bill only to have it killed by a segregationist filibuster in the senate.