Title

The strange deaths of President Harding.

Description

An account of the administration of President Warren G. Harding.

Identifier

693330

826210937

Creator

Ferrell, Robert H

Source

Brian Lamb Booknotes Collection

Gift of Brian Lamb, 2011.

Catalog record

Language

eng

Date

1996

Program air date: January 12, 1997

Publisher

University of Missouri Press

George Mason University. Libraries. Special Collections & Archives

Text

Transcription of Annotations
Notes on front endpaper: Jess Smith's suicide p. 127. Nan Britton, Carrie Phillips--closed letter 2014. Harry Daugherty. Novels- Samuel Hopkins Adams. T.R./Truman reading p 150. President Harding-sterile. William Allen White, Frederick Lewis Allen, H.L. Mencken, Mark Sullivan, Smauel Hopkins Adams. Affairs, scandals, a suicide, p. 132 funeral train, theories for Harding's death, details of supposed affair, love child, details on Nan Britton's life, Harding's family and their reaction to Britton, biographers requested proof from Britton, Teapot Dome impact, Teapot Dome hearings. Underlinings/Notes: Underlinings: Health, career, doctors, wife, Notes: "trip to Marion," "polls, the worst?" "Shook hands," "grief like ABE Linc.," "Type A," "nervous breakdown," "workload 5Xs greater," "Sawyer Sanatorium," "near death," "ptomaine poisoning," "golf and tired," "stop the pace," "Seattle," "Palace Hotel," "poison, pneumonia, stroke," "Plymouth Notch, no phone," "dead," "first news," "coins on track," "East Room," "Marion," "heart attack," "The Pres.," "Mrs. Harding," "Catholics," "apoplexy," "Revelry, Samuel Hopkins Adams," "Gaston Means, 'Strange Death'," "age," "Florence b. 1860," "died 11/21/24," "first kiss," "dead and no money," "Elizabeth Ann Guild," "nagging questions," "Tim Slade, S.S.," "R.T. Smith mail room," "blackmailing," "tore up letters," "France trip," "Elizabeth Ann Guild and League," "The Werblows, Sing Sing," "mighty rough racket," "Britton Book, 1932," "Pres. Daugh. 1927," "$250,000, 75,000 books," "sterile," "The Trial OCt. 7, 1931," "no records," "Imperial Hotel," "signature not Hardings," "30 yrs later, Downes and Albertson," "Tim Slade a.k.a. Jack Slye," "Starling," "meeting in W.H.," "a man wrote the book," "Albertson," "Tim Slade is James Sloan Jr.," "Fall to jail," "Daugherty," "Harding appears before Senate," "Fall approved by Senate," "Emma Fall, K.C.," "my friends," "Sen Smoot," "Veterans 1/5 of Budget 1922," "17 million for 12 hospitals," "10 500 bills to Forbes," "Attorney General Daugherty," "Colonel Miller," "Smith suicide," "shot himself," "murder?" "Jesse Smith," "presumed stroke," "Coolidge asked for Daugherty's resignation," "Lodge," "journalists," "the papers, 1963, a mistress 2014 sealed," "laugh," "H.L. Mencken," "Back to God," "Mencken voted for LaFollette," "William Allen White," "Greek tragedy in today's education," "Frederick Lewis Allen," "View from New York," "Allen Nevin, Wilson lover," "Cox," "a slob," "Mark Sullivan," "Samuel Hopkins Adams," "books, music," "political leaders and books," "Reading," "Mrs. Harding destroyed papers," "burned the papers," "1956 Carrie Phillips letters," "lurid letters," "open letters 2014," "1964 papers," "Sinclair and myths," "Francis Russell," "Historians, Journalists & their politics," "polls Harding last," "50 years ago."

Subject

"Harding, Warren G. (Warren Gamaliel), 1865-1923--Public opinion."

"Presidents--United States--Biography--History and criticism."

"Public opinion--United States."

Relation

Original Booknotes interview

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