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I'm John Batchew with David Petrucia.

His book is 1920, the year of the six presidents.

Cox and Roosevelt are on the campaign trail. Harding eventually

thinks he's going to run a front porch campaign like McKinley, but he's a good speaker.

He's an orator. Although there was that remark about how his speeches, he calls him bloviating,

are in search of an idea.

And when they find an idea, they take it prisoner and it can never escape.

So I take it that his speeches weren't read from teleprompters.

He was, what, a spontaneous speaker?

Did he have a script?

Oh, I'm not sure if he spoke from notes or not, but he made, I visited his home in Marion, Ohio, finally.

And I said, now how did he get such a nice sort of, how did he manage to travel to Europe and do all these things when he had this little teeny newspaper?

And the docent says, because he went on the Chautauqua circuit, and he earned quite a bit of money as a public speaker,

which is really interesting considering the horrible reputation he has as a public speaker.

But he has a very nice voice, which sounds sort of modern.

You can listen to phonograph recordings of him.

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