Normalcy and woodrow wilson
The idealism of Woodrow Wilson’s politics and the strain of World War 1 had the nation wishing for less turbulent, more normal times. While running for President in 1920, Warren G. Harding played on these desires and came up the idea of a “return to normalcy.” Harding said, “America’s present need is not heroics but healing, not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration.” (Faragher p. 669) The idea of a less complicated life, without war, union strikes, factories and feminism, was so appealing to the nation that Harding won the election by the largest margin in history to that date even though he did not actively campaign for President. The three Republican presidents of the 1920's, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge and Herbert Hoover, shared the conservative philosophy that less federal government was good for the country and that a close
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Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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