Calvin Coolidge Becomes President After Harding's Death
Warren Harding died in a San Francisco hotel room on August 2, 1923. By the time his body arrived in Washington two days later, his Vice President Calvin Coolidge had already been sworn in, in a farmhouse in Vermont, by his own father, who was a notary public. Coolidge went back to sleep. Harding's administration was unraveling — the Teapot Dome scandal was still breaking. Coolidge inherited the mess and emerged from it with his reputation largely intact. Silent Cal. The mess was Harding's.
August 3, 1923
103 years ago
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