AMH-2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Calvin Coolidge, Walgreens, John T. Scopes
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Reduce spending by the government: taxes. Reduce taxes that individuals had to pay: regulation. Reduce regulations on factories and companies: tariff, race. Increase the tariff on goods coming into the country from abroad. Long running feud between both parties with this topic. Wanted american companies to be more prosperous. Actively tries to get a federal lynching law, and go after those that are lynching. Doesn"t succeed with the law, but deserves recognition for trying. Rated as worst president in us history by historians. Harding administrations scandals: veterans bureau, justice departments. Officials were willing to sell presidential pardons. If you wanted to become a judge, you had to bribe the right official in the justice department. Smith- burned papers and found dead in hotel when he was told he would be arrested in the morning: tea pot dome. In charge of leasing out us properties to companies. Good friends with those in the oil.
