The loves and scandals of President Harding

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🗓️ 17 February 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Steamy love letters. Jazz. Scandal. Psychics. Newspapers. The Hope Diamond.

In this Presidents’ Day special from Post Reports, we revisit an episode of The Post’s “Presidential” podcast with host Lillian Cunningham. Cunningham and Nicole Hemmer of the University of Virginia's Miller Center helps guide us through the wild life and presidency of Warren G. Harding — and the interesting connection between his presidency and The Washington Post.

Listen and learn more by checking out the Washington Post podcast “Presidential” — a deep dive into the life and legacy of every U.S. president.

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0:00.0	From the newsroom of the Washington Post, this is Post Reports.
0:07.6	I'm Martin Powers.
0:09.5	It's February 17th, President State.
0:17.1	So Elaine Tunningham, I was going to ask you to introduce yourself, but then I thought
0:22.8	that maybe I could introduce you.
0:25.8	Okay.
0:26.8	So how I would describe you is like an OG podcast maker here at the Washington Post, because
0:33.2	you were the creator of a podcast during the last presidential election called appropriately
0:40.3	enough presidential.
0:42.6	And you basically went back and did the history of every US president.
0:47.7	I did, yeah.
0:49.7	44 episodes and 44 weeks, four years ago.
0:54.2	It was a lot.
0:55.2	A lot of episodes.
0:56.2	It was a lot.
0:57.8	But this year, four years later, you are revisiting some of the episodes of presidential.
1:02.8	So partly I'm going back just for myself and re-listening to these episodes I made
1:07.4	four years ago and rethinking what they mean and what they tell us in an election year.
1:12.9	But then we're also going to be releasing some new episodes and some new special stuff
1:18.2	over the course of the coming year that has to do with presidential history.
1:22.2	So in the spirit of all of that, because today is president's day, we thought it might
1:27.7	be a good idea to go back and have post-reportalistiners just listen to an episode of presidential.
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