Warren Harding

If being an absolute dullard defines being amongst the biggest idiots in American History, President Warren Gamaliel Harding definitely is. A man of mediocrity, Harding was largely controlled by both his Secretary of the Interior, Albert B. Fall, and his infamous Attorney General, Harry M. Daugherty. Genial and outgoing, Harding actually never wanted to be President- and proceeded to show why he never should have been. His gross philandering notwithstanding, what made Harding such an inept President was his inability to say "NO" to his political friends and allies. He desperately wanted to be loved (and was during his era). But Harding had no clear vision nor any decipherable cause of which to stand on. As is, Warren Harding was unfit to command- truly unfortunate.

Warren Harding, I thought it was Tonya...actually more corrupt than stupid.

He did say he didn't want to be president.

Unlike Wilson, unlike Coolidge and unlike Hoover at least Warren G. Harding liked African-Americans. He openly invited them into his White House.

Harding's rating is not the result of his presidency, but the result of his being the wrong man for the presidency at the wrong time. The business leaders of our democracy were scared of the unrest sweeping the world as a result of World War 1 and the ensuing global influenza epidemic. Nationalistic upsurges were taking place world wide. In the US the migration of minorities from the south and the southwest was speeding up because of the future drop in European immigration and the racial fears of immigration from Asia. These changes along with the women's suffrage were causing present and future insecurities for business' political lackeys. Add to this a labor unrest upsurge that in fact lasted until about 1924 with the breaking of the railroad shopmem's strike. The Republican party was not up for an internecine squabble. How else could Daughtery as early as February, 1920 begin the campaign to patiently and stubbornly promote his candidate while at the same time waiting to seize ... Read more

Not exactly the sharpest tool in the shed. Probably the dumbest man to occupy the Oval Office, which he more or less acknowledged. Makes you wonder why he sought the office.

Well, let's just say he certainly didn't have very good taste in women.

Possibly the dimmest bulb ever to be lit in the White House. He knew it, though, and we can't add arrogance to his list of sins.

Warren Harding was probably the least intellectual President we've ever had. The public liked him during his Presidency; he was a nice man who said plenty of nice words but not much else. Like most of the Presidents of the 1920's, he deferred a lot of very difficult issues to his successors.