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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.