Good Old W.G. Harding. First president elected after the 19th Amendment granted the ladies the franchise. Some theories claim that his handsome face gave him an advantage over the rather plain James M. Cox with the distaff set. If they had known about his philandering, hard drinking, and corruption-based personality they may have gone with the Cox-FDR ticket instead. Speculative history could be written about that — Cox falls to the zero-year curse and dies in office, bringing a healthy Franklin Roosevelt to the Oval Office before the Great Depression and WWII. He has no compunction to seek a third (and fourth) term, leaving office in 1929 in relative obscurity.
Why, yes. The Veterans Administration has lots of doctors and the current nominee is a doctor, and a soldier as well. Who could have better qualifications?
Later in time, we would learn that is was indeed possible to nominate a worse person for Interior Secretary; This would be one James Watt, and he gave a bad name to both a certain British steam engine developer and the associated energy unit…..
The Zero Year Curse! Make sure the Veep in 2020 is someone good!Gifford Pinchot was a Republican! Sigh.And Harding’s guy sold naval oil reserves at Teapot Dome.
jerumulligan1 about 6 years ago
Interior Decorators deserve the same respect as the Veterans Administration, truly. They must if they need a secretary, right?
Fido (aka Felix Rex) Premium Member about 6 years ago
Good Old W.G. Harding. First president elected after the 19th Amendment granted the ladies the franchise. Some theories claim that his handsome face gave him an advantage over the rather plain James M. Cox with the distaff set. If they had known about his philandering, hard drinking, and corruption-based personality they may have gone with the Cox-FDR ticket instead. Speculative history could be written about that — Cox falls to the zero-year curse and dies in office, bringing a healthy Franklin Roosevelt to the Oval Office before the Great Depression and WWII. He has no compunction to seek a third (and fourth) term, leaving office in 1929 in relative obscurity.
Oge about 6 years ago
Why, yes. The Veterans Administration has lots of doctors and the current nominee is a doctor, and a soldier as well. Who could have better qualifications?
martens about 6 years ago
^Maybe someone who has experience and a proven track record managing large organizations?
Spun_G about 6 years ago
Later in time, we would learn that is was indeed possible to nominate a worse person for Interior Secretary; This would be one James Watt, and he gave a bad name to both a certain British steam engine developer and the associated energy unit…..
Baslim the Beggar Premium Member about 6 years ago
I love that last sentence from Harding… sounds like something the current prez might say in a tweet…
dutchs about 6 years ago
The Zero Year Curse! Make sure the Veep in 2020 is someone good!Gifford Pinchot was a Republican! Sigh.And Harding’s guy sold naval oil reserves at Teapot Dome.