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Jason Roberts

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
216 total appearances

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American History Hit
President Warren G. Harding: Scandals, Affairs & Cabinet Selections

And, you know, maybe emotionally and psychologically, she provided him with a level of stability that Carrie Phillips, as much as I think he did love her, she could not provide.

American History Hit
President Warren G. Harding: Scandals, Affairs & Cabinet Selections

So she lives another year and she'd always had these kidney issues. I think she had a kidney removed and the other kidney was like often getting infected. And she almost actually died in the White House at one point. She was bedridden for months with a kidney infection and pulled through. So she lived another year and two months and then I think ultimately died from Lowe's. kidney problems.

American History Hit
President Warren G. Harding: Scandals, Affairs & Cabinet Selections

So she lives another year and she'd always had these kidney issues. I think she had a kidney removed and the other kidney was like often getting infected. And she almost actually died in the White House at one point. She was bedridden for months with a kidney infection and pulled through. So she lived another year and two months and then I think ultimately died from Lowe's. kidney problems.

American History Hit
President Warren G. Harding: Scandals, Affairs & Cabinet Selections

So she lives another year and she'd always had these kidney issues. I think she had a kidney removed and the other kidney was like often getting infected. And she almost actually died in the White House at one point. She was bedridden for months with a kidney infection and pulled through. So she lived another year and two months and then I think ultimately died from Lowe's. kidney problems.

American History Hit
President Warren G. Harding: Scandals, Affairs & Cabinet Selections

So it's unfortunate because it would have been interesting to see how she would have responded, you know, to the NAM Britain allegations and the other scandals.

American History Hit
President Warren G. Harding: Scandals, Affairs & Cabinet Selections

So it's unfortunate because it would have been interesting to see how she would have responded, you know, to the NAM Britain allegations and the other scandals.

American History Hit
President Warren G. Harding: Scandals, Affairs & Cabinet Selections

So it's unfortunate because it would have been interesting to see how she would have responded, you know, to the NAM Britain allegations and the other scandals.

American History Hit
President Warren G. Harding: Scandals, Affairs & Cabinet Selections

I think in many ways he was the right man for the time, or at least he was the right man that I think people were looking for. at that time, after eight years of Wilson, after the First World War. And I think what people forget is just how much of a mess the country was in going into the 1920 election.

American History Hit
President Warren G. Harding: Scandals, Affairs & Cabinet Selections

I think in many ways he was the right man for the time, or at least he was the right man that I think people were looking for. at that time, after eight years of Wilson, after the First World War. And I think what people forget is just how much of a mess the country was in going into the 1920 election.

American History Hit
President Warren G. Harding: Scandals, Affairs & Cabinet Selections

I think in many ways he was the right man for the time, or at least he was the right man that I think people were looking for. at that time, after eight years of Wilson, after the First World War. And I think what people forget is just how much of a mess the country was in going into the 1920 election.

American History Hit
President Warren G. Harding: Scandals, Affairs & Cabinet Selections

So, you know, you go back 1918, 1919, you know, 1918, you know, the end of the war, you have a flu epidemic that kills over 700,000 Americans, I think 100 million or so people worldwide. You have Woodrow Wilson not prepared for the end of the war. So he really had no plans for converting the economy back to a peacetime economy.

American History Hit
President Warren G. Harding: Scandals, Affairs & Cabinet Selections

So, you know, you go back 1918, 1919, you know, 1918, you know, the end of the war, you have a flu epidemic that kills over 700,000 Americans, I think 100 million or so people worldwide. You have Woodrow Wilson not prepared for the end of the war. So he really had no plans for converting the economy back to a peacetime economy.

American History Hit
President Warren G. Harding: Scandals, Affairs & Cabinet Selections

So, you know, you go back 1918, 1919, you know, 1918, you know, the end of the war, you have a flu epidemic that kills over 700,000 Americans, I think 100 million or so people worldwide. You have Woodrow Wilson not prepared for the end of the war. So he really had no plans for converting the economy back to a peacetime economy.

American History Hit
President Warren G. Harding: Scandals, Affairs & Cabinet Selections

And then when all these like wartime contracts are, you know, canceled, you know, it's chaos. We have a post-war depression. I mean, at one point, like inflation is through the roof. We have labor strikes all over the country. We have anarchists setting off bombs.

American History Hit
President Warren G. Harding: Scandals, Affairs & Cabinet Selections

And then when all these like wartime contracts are, you know, canceled, you know, it's chaos. We have a post-war depression. I mean, at one point, like inflation is through the roof. We have labor strikes all over the country. We have anarchists setting off bombs.

American History Hit
President Warren G. Harding: Scandals, Affairs & Cabinet Selections

And then when all these like wartime contracts are, you know, canceled, you know, it's chaos. We have a post-war depression. I mean, at one point, like inflation is through the roof. We have labor strikes all over the country. We have anarchists setting off bombs.

American History Hit
President Warren G. Harding: Scandals, Affairs & Cabinet Selections

And then kind of the most historians would say the excessive counter reaction, you know, was a Mitchell Palmer's Red Scare where we're just going to round up people and arrest them with little or no evidence. And it turns out most of the people he arrested died. weren't terrorists, weren't anarchists. You have race riots throughout the country in 1918, 1919.

American History Hit
President Warren G. Harding: Scandals, Affairs & Cabinet Selections

And then kind of the most historians would say the excessive counter reaction, you know, was a Mitchell Palmer's Red Scare where we're just going to round up people and arrest them with little or no evidence. And it turns out most of the people he arrested died. weren't terrorists, weren't anarchists. You have race riots throughout the country in 1918, 1919.

American History Hit
President Warren G. Harding: Scandals, Affairs & Cabinet Selections

And then kind of the most historians would say the excessive counter reaction, you know, was a Mitchell Palmer's Red Scare where we're just going to round up people and arrest them with little or no evidence. And it turns out most of the people he arrested died. weren't terrorists, weren't anarchists. You have race riots throughout the country in 1918, 1919.

American History Hit
President Warren G. Harding: Scandals, Affairs & Cabinet Selections

And this is the period where, you know, you're seeing the rise of the Ku Klux Klan, lynchings are on the rise. So it was, I mean, it was a really unstable, chaotic period. Business people weren't happy. Workers weren't happy. Farmers weren't happy. No one's really, you know, happy. And also you have Woodrow Wilson for... the last year and a half of his presidency, he's basically AWOL.