Jason Roberts
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first heard Nov 2024
last heard 15 Jun
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Yeah, they did lose seats in that election.
He will in San Francisco. Yeah, he will die of a heart attack in his hotel.
He looked healthy, looked vigorous and strong. He had a history of health problems. He had gone, I guess, over the years to the Kellogg's Sanitarium in Michigan for health issues. He had a history of high blood pressure, high sugar, high cholesterol. I think his favorite food was waffles. Covered in like beef gravy. Yeah, he liked these foods that were high in cholesterol.
He smoked cigars he didn't drink as I think as much as people think he drank and Interestingly enough one of the causes for his health problems and his early death was that Harding basically worked himself to death and In the White House. So there's, you know, accounts saying like you get up at 8 a.m. and he would basically work until midnight.
And one journalist who visited him in the White House said Warren G. Harding has like these 80, 85 hour days. So I think part of it was. He wanted to do the job well. But also, I think as you mentioned, he wasn't a great manager. So actually being an executive was something that was new to him. And people around him would say, you don't need to meet with these people.
You don't need to read these letters. Other people can read them. You don't need to read over every document. But I think he had this insecurity, like, I'm not as smart as Woodrow Wilson or Theodore Roosevelt, so I have to work even harder than they do.
Well, I think that's an interesting question. And I think the problem is when we talk about Harding and Coolidge, the two get separated because they're two different personalities. Like Harding's extroverted, warm, outgoing. He loves people. He loves to talk and give speeches. And we know about his extramarital affairs, you know, versus Coolidge personality wise.
He tends to be more shy, more introverted. He often says the bare minimum. And he kind of has like that New England, taciturn personality. And he has a kind of a different relationship with his wife. He never cheated on Grace, whereas Harding cheated on Florence. Though I would know, I think Warren G. Harding and Florence Harding, their relationship kind of foreshadowed
Franklin Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt and Bill and Hillary Clinton, that it was, you know, a quote unquote political partnership. He actually, I mean, valued her political advice. Whereas Calvin Coolidge loved his wife, but he seems to have been very contemptuous of her intellect and her political ability, and he wouldn't let her talk about policy.
He'd say, we don't share that promiscuously, Grace, when she'd say, what's your schedule today? So I think we too often focus on, oh, they're different personalities. But the reality is that Coolidge basically followed Warren G. Harding's policies. So you talk about reducing the debt, running budget surpluses, cutting taxes for business, high tariffs on imported goods.
He's basically following Harding's policies. And I think what happens sometimes with the Coolidge supporters is they give credit to Coolidge for stuff that actually started under Warren G. Harding. that was already in place. So it's almost like being an actor and they give you the script and you just follow the script. So I think Coolidge was just basically following the script.
I think where they might be different policy-wise, I think Coolidge was even more pro-business than Warren G. Harding.
A pleasure to talk to you.
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