President #29, C-SPAN Historians Ranking #38 Getting back to normalcy? America’s 29th President, Warren Gamaliel Harding, has not fared well in the eyes of historians. He is viewed as a weak leader who appointed corrupt friends to high government positions. He was accused of extramarital affairs and fathering illegitimate children. People have speculated that he [...]
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President #27, C-SPAN historians’ ranking #24 Why Am I President? It Was On My Wife’s To Do List. When it came time to find a biography of President William Taft, it wasn’t easy. Despite holding office during a time when Constitutional Amendments introducing the income tax and the direct election of senators, the admission of [...]
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You should put some Bactine on that President #20, C-SPAN Historians ranking #28 James Garfield served as President from March 4 through September 19, 1881, the second shortest tenure of any person to hold the office. Garfield’s assassination was tragic, although the most tragic part was not the violence perpetrated by Charles Guiteau, but rather [...]
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