Warren G. Harding
Warren G. Harding was a republican president from Ohio. He served in the Ohio Senate, as the 28th Lieutenant Governor of Ohio and as a U.S. Senator. He was also the first incumbent United States Senator and the first newspaper publisher to be elected President. During his presidential campaign, he promised a return of the nation to "normalcy". This "America first" campaign encouraged industrialization and a strong economy independent of foreign influence. In the 1920 election, he and his running mate, Calvin Coolidge, defeated Democrat James M. Cox in the largest presidential popular vote landslide since popular vote totals were first recorded in 1824. Harding declined the League of Nations, and signed a separate peace treaty with Germany and Austria, formally ending World War I. The nation's unemployment rate also dropped by half during Harding's administration. When Harding died, Vice President Calvin Coolidge succeeded him.
Return To Normalcy
"A return to normalcy" was US presidential candidate Warren G. Harding’s campaign promise in the election of 1920. Harding's promise was to return the United States to pre-world war mentality, without the thought of war tainting the minds of the American people.
"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; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality,"
"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; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate; not experiment, but equipoise; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality,"