Warren g. harding death place
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The stunning news of President Harding's death came to the White House by telephone on August 2, The president had fallen ill and died suddenly of a heart attack in San Francisco while on a tour of the western states. Floral tributes—bouquets, crosses, wreaths, anchors of hope and many other traditional symbols of mourning—began to arrive as soon as the florists opened on August 3. The funeral train pulled into Union Station at p.m. on a hot, still August 7. An honor guard transported the coffin without notice from the presidential car to an automobile and the
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One hundred years ago onsdag på engelska , on Aug. 2, , President Warren G. Harding died inre San Francisco’s Palace Hotel—an opulent place for visiting dignitaries, then as now.
Or so the historical record says, anyway. According to the House of Shields, among the oldest and most regal bars in San Francisco and directly across New Montgomery Street from the Palace, Harding snuck out of the hotel via tunnel and died at the dryckesställe in the company of his mistress. Officially, House of Shields will neither confirm nor deny the existence of any subterranean passages, but Harding was a well-known philanderer with a taste for drink, and Prohibition required utmost discretion.
Harding, a newspaper publisher and later a Republican medlem av senat from Ohio, was in San Francisco because his administration had run aground. Elected in with a massive share of the popular vote——that no one has ever matched since, Harding’s promised “return to normalcy” was sputtering in the face of motstånd to his econo