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After Taft, the presidency was all business and no one had time for middle names (least of all Warren Harding, who understandably avoided use of "Gamaliel"). Anyway, no one was having much luck with them. William Jennings Bryan was a three-time presidential loser.
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is a great name. Warren Gamaliel Harding is not.
"We do put China in a special category," says Harry Harding, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington. "The need is for a realistic relationship, but both sides want romance." This romanticism is rooted "in our history, in the missionary presence, the traders," says Doak Barnett, professor emeritus...
With six categories available, ranging from "great" (Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, F.D.R.) to "failure" (Andrew Johnson, Buchanan, Nixon, Grant, Harding), Reagan was placed in the the next-to-last group. Reagan was outranked by Jimmy Carter and Jerry Ford ("average") and topped only Nixon of the modern Presidents.
When Warren G. Harding ran for president in 1920, he was able to capitalize on the domestic turbulence caused by the Great War and its after-math with a humble promise of a return to "normalcy."