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1923Early
in the year, Harding suffers from a severe attack of influenza,
followed by other disorders. His wife is also in poor health. He decides
to go on a speaking tour that could help his health and his popularity.
He leaves with his wife and a party of 65 on a 1,500-mile, 2-month trip
to Alaska with stops at cities along the way. Exhausted, he becomes ill
in Seattle and dies of bronchopneumonia and a possible cerebral hemorrhage
on August 2nd in San Francisco's Palace Hotel. Mrs. Harding immediately
returns to Washington and burns all of his papers. He leaves an administration
torn by scandal, but was a popular president and is deeply mourned by
the nation. Vice President Calvin Coolidge is vacationing at his father's
home in Plymouth, Vermont. It takes several hours for the news of President
Harding's death in California to reach the small town. Because the chief
justice of the Supreme Court is 500 miles away, Coolidge's father, a notary
public, administers the oath of office to his son by the light of a kerosene
lamp at 2:30 a.m.
Harry
A. Franck, explorer, visits the Xianyang mounds previously
seen by Robert Sterling Clark in 1908.
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