Presidential Chronicles

Episode #281: Warren Harding #3: Senator Harding (1912-1920)


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Warren Harding #3: Senator Harding (1912-1920); Topics covered include: Nominates William Taft (1912 Republican National Convention); Republican Party breaks over election, elected U.S. Senate, World War I (and U.S. role), 1916 election (Woodrow Wilson re-elected), Germany announces unrestricted submarine warfare, U.S. enters war, victory in Europe, Paris Peace Conference, and the U.S. Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations Covenant


Key people include: William Taft, Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Burton, Joseph Foraker, Timothy Hogan, Frank Willis, George Van Fleet, Nick Longworth, Alice (Roosevelt) Longworth, Woodrow Wilson, Charles Evans Hughes, and Henry Cabot Lodge


Correction: References to "Taft" at 2:04 and 2:10 should be "Harding."


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