If Harding had lived, it is at least possible that he might have been impeached. When he died his wife was accused of poisoning him. It was also whispered that he could have committed suicide. In the end two well-established doctors stated in their memoirs that it was impossible for Harding to have been poisoned and also that he was not the suicidal type.

ked like a President. Harding was sent for and when he arrived he was tall, with a solid body, a dark complexion, blue eyes and white hair. Harding's wife; whom he, not wholly affection, called "Duches." Harvey said, "We think you may be nominated tomorrow." (p.6) Harvey then asked Harding if there was anything that might be brought against him, which would embarrass the party or disqualify him. He was given time alone to think it over and returned to say that there was no impediment. William Alan White cried out that to nominate Harding would disgrace the Republican Party. On June 12, 1920-Harding was elected president. Even though Harding was given a chance to explain himself, he did not, and Harvey had concern over something very important in politics, which was the color of his skin. The other mystery raised a "woman question." On top of these two mysteries two more would be added-the manner of his death and the fate of his private papers. For campaign purpose Harding was an American success story. He started as a poor boy in Ohio. At nineteen managed to take over the Marion Star, and over the years he built it up to a prosperous daily. Afterward he became a state senator and lieutenant governor. The story was a myth and Harding was more of a creation of his wife than of himself. Florence Kling De Wolfe Harding, she was dominant but lacked feminine charm. Her aggressive qualities, along with her plain features, she had inherited from her father, Amos Kling, a real estate operator and banker had become one of the riches men in town. She soon married at age nineteen and her husband after two years left her and her year-old child. Ten years later she married Harding. Harding had only been managing the Star moderately well, until Flossie Wolfe married Harding. Flossie made the paper a success, as chief of his business. Harding as a Senator had been a popular, but unknown person. At the convention Daughety used the poor-boy-to-President myth; but another story was in circulation, one that Harvey must have know about. The story set out to demonstrate that "Warren Gamaliel Harding is not a white man." (p.7) The man who wrote the story was William Estabrook Chancellor. He had nothing against Harding he was just obsessed to frenzy over questions of race. Chancellor wrote that Harding's nomination was a plot to achieve Negro domination in the United States. Harding's father was George Tryon Harding; he had fought in the Civil War, and was a Doctor. The Harding's were always poor whites. Older residents told Samuel Hopkins Adams, in search of background material for his book, that Harding was thought to be of mixed blood. A reporter who worked for the Star told Adams "it was generally believed that there was Negro blood in the Harding line, but that W.G. had out grown it." Chancellor's circular caused an uproar, which let to his resignation. Yet he continued digging into Harding's genealogy, and published a book of his findings. The author of the book was assumed to be Chancellor but is was never proven. The circular was secretly being distributed, mainly in Ohio. In the book Chancellor states that there were several Negro strains in the Harding clan. His chief claim was that Harding's great-grandmother was a Negress. Harry Daugherty, Attorney General of the United States, when he learned of Chancellor's book, he sent agents of the Justice Department and the Post Office to gather and destroy all copies in Ohio. The agents also burned the unsold copies and destroyed the printing plates, at the Sentinal Press. Harding's father-in-law, Kling

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