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HISTORY
58. Ibid., for various
endorsements of O'Connor, Folder 3931-1, Box 485; for Hilles's
activity, see ibid., Folder
4716-1, Box 655.
59. James J. Davis, The Iron Puddler:
My Life in the Rolling Mills and What Came
of It (New York, 1922), Introduction. See also Book I, p.
214, Box 38, James J. Davis
Papers, Library of Congress.
60. For numerous items showing
endorsements for Davis, see Folder 3932-1, Box 486,
Harding Papers.
61. James J. Davis to Harris, April 2,
1934. Box 4, Harris Papers.
62. Telegram from Samuel Gompers to
Harding, February 7, 1921. Box 655, Harding
Papers. See also, New York Times, March
1, 1921.
63. Davis to Harris, April 2, 1934. Box
3, Harris Papers. Ibid., Wadsworth to Harris,
June 20, 1938, Box 2; see also various
items, Folder 15-1 Box 31, Harding Papers.
Schriftgiesser in his This Was
Normalcy repeats a completely false myth that Harding
wanted to appoint Charles M. Schwab as
Secretary of Labor, 88.
64. Hays to Harding, February 4, 1921.
Box 655, Harding Papers.
65. William T. Hutchinson, Lowden of
Illinois: The Life of Frank 0. Lowden (Chicago,
1957), II, 484-485. For text of February
14 telegram, see ibid., 485, fn. 5.
66. Ibid., 486; letter from Mrs.
John Weeks to Harris, no date, Folder 7, Box 4, Harris
Papers.
67. Sullivan, Our Times, VI,
295-296.
68. New York Times, February 27,
1921; "Denby, the 'Dark Horse' of the Harding
Cabinet," Current Opinion, LXX
(April 1921), 471.
69. "A Cabinet Member Whose Life
Story Reads Like a Dime Novel," Current
Opinion, LXXI (July 1921), 34-36.
70. See various issues of New York Times,
January 27 to February 1, 1921; especially
January 28, 1921.
71. For an excellent discussion of early
conservation opposition to Fall, see Burl
Noggle, Teapot Dome: Oil and Politics
in the 1920's (Baton Rouge, 1962), 8-31.
72. Albert Shaw to Harris, November 19,
1933. Box 3, Harris Papers.
73. Ibid., Wadsworth to Harris,
June 20, 1938. Box 2. For opposition to Daugherty,
see Alice Roosevelt Longworth, Crowded
Hours (New York, 1933), 322; various items,
Folder 1, Box 693, Harding Papers; Col.
T. Bentley Mott, Myron T. Herrick: Friend
of France (New York, 1929), 256. Of the important early visitors,
only Taft put in a
good word for Daugherty.
74. Timmons, Dawes, 203.
75. William F. Anderson to Harding,
February 20, 1921. Box 693, Harding Papers.
76. For Daugherty's story of his own
selection, see Daugherty, Inside Story, 85-91.
77. For Mark Sullivan's account of
Daugherty's appointment, see Our Times, VI,
147-152.
78. Finley Peter Dunne, "A Look At
Harding From the Side Lines," Saturday
Evening Post, September 12, 1936, p. 76.
79. Sullivan, Our Times, VI, 151.
Sullivan says Harding added: "You can set that
up in a block on your first page."
Actually, this was said by Harding in a different
connection and did not relate
specifically to Daugherty's appointment. See New York
Times, February 22, 1921.
80. Ibid.
81. Sullivan, Our Times, VI, 152.
82. Ibid., 150.
83. Ibid.
84. Ibid., fn. 9.
85. Daugherty, Inside Story, 91.
86. New York Times, February 22,
1921.
87. Sullivan, "The Men of the
Cabinet," 81.
88. For a contemporary evaluation, see
Gilbert, The Mirrors of Washington, 20-21.
89. William B. Munro, "Two Years of
President Harding," Atlantic Monthly, CXXXI
(March 1923), 384-393.
DISHARMONY IN THE
HARDING CABINET:
HOOVER-WALLACE
CONFLICT
1. Letter, Herbert C. Hoover to Henry C.
Wallace, undated copy in Wallace Corre-
spondence File No. 177-3. Food Administration File,
Hoover Institution On War, Revolu-
tion, And Peace; Stanford University.
2. Telegram, Wallace to Hoover October
18, 1917. Food Administration File.
3. Report of Commission Appointed By The
U.S. Food Administration To Inves-
tigate The Cost Of Producing Hogs,
October 27, 1917, Chairman, John M. Evvard.
File 15-H, Box 49, Food Administration
File.