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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (5527)	9/22/2002 7:34:32 PM
From: GraceZ	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 306849

"Harding's speeches are an army of pompous phrases moving across the landscape in search of an idea." Damn, he'd fit right in here on SI.

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (5527)	9/23/2002 12:58:35 PM
From: Oblomov	Respond to of 306849

Mencken said the following of Harding's diction: It reminds me of a string of wet sponges; it reminds me of tattered washing on the line; it reminds me of stale bean soup, of college yells, of dogs barking idiotically through endless nights. It is so bad that a sort of grandeur creeps into it. It drags itself out of a dark abysm... of pish, and crawls insanely up the topmost pinnacle of posh. It is rumble and bumble. It is flap and doodle. It is balder and dash. On the other hand, what he is not remembered for is the fact that he reversed Wilson's policy of excluding minorities from federal posts. Further, late in his life in a speech in Birmingham, AL, he boldly called for political, economic, and educational equality for the races. I think this evidences more moral courage than McAdoo or Mencken ever showed.