Warren G Harding/presidency - 1921-1923

Famous quotes containing the words warren g, warren, harding and/or presidency:

    Warren G. Harding invented the word “normalcy,”
    And the lesser-known “bloviate,” meaning, one imagines,
    To spout, to spew aimless verbiage.
    John Ashbery (b. 1927)

    But it thought no bed too narrow—it stood with lips askew
    And shook its great head sadly like the abstract Jew.
    —Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)

    To be perfectly honest, what I’m really thinking about are dollar signs.
    —Tonya Harding (b. 1970)

    I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.
    Lyndon Baines Johnson (1908–1973)