Warren G. Harding President from America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration; not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity.... Died in office Teapot Dome Scandal –Sec. of the Interior Albert Fall allowed corporate friends to drill for oil on public lands for private profit

Calvin Coolidge The epitome of a “hands off” president Slept 11 hours a day Napped every day Rarely worked more than 4 hours a day

Calvin Coolidge Silent Cal “You lose” "The man who builds a factory builds a temple, The man who works there, worships there." "The chief business of the American people is business. If government kept its hands off the economy, business would prosper.”

Calvin Coolidge During the 1924 presidential race, reporters asked him whether he had any statement about the campaign. "No," he replied. He was then asked whether he had anything to say about the world situation. "No," he answered. Did he have anything to say about Prohibition? "No."

Calvin Coolidge Then he told the reporters, "Now remember, don't quote me." At the end of his presidency, he was asked whether he had a farewell message for the American people, he paused and said, "Good-bye."

The Coolidge Years The “Roaring Twenties” Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon was the 3 rd richest man in America and very much in favor of low taxes and little business regulation (anti-Progressive) Tremendous economic prosperity that was increasingly in the hands of the very rich (an important cause of the Great Depression)