HARDING MEMORIAL REMAINS UNVEILED

Star (Christchurch), Issue 19238, 27 November 1930, Page 4

HARDING MEMORIAL REMAINS UNVEILED

MANY STORIES TOLD ABOUT EX-PRESIDENT. (Special to the “Star.”) LONDON, October IS. Why has the memorial to Warren Gamaliel Harding, late President of the United States, who died in 1923, never been unveiled in his native town of Marion, Ohio? It cost £160,000, but no prominent man in America, not even his VicePresident and successor, Mr Calvin Coolidge, would perform the opening ceremony. Apparently America is seething with stories of the private life of the late President. Mr Harding's name is, of course, associated with the Teapot Dome oil scandal. and there are also rumours arising from the late President’s admitted liaison with Nan Britton,'the daughter of an old friend, by whom he had a child. It is said that shortly before his death President Harding was preparing to go into retirement with this child, who is now attending a New York school with the name of his father in- @ Hi OS 113 ES ® ® HI HI © ® HI ® HI HI El HI EBB HI HI

scribed in the records as “late President of the United States.” At the time of the Presidential election in 1920 Harding was opposed by James Middleton Cox, ex-Governor of Ohio. Neither was known outside America, and a writer in “Punch” used this fact as the basis of some humorous verses beginning: “I wish I had some facts regarding The private life of Mr Harding; I wish that I had simply stocks Of anecdotes of Mr Cox.” He may now, apparently, take his choice of “facts regarding the private life of Mr Harding.