As President of the United States, Warren Harding made some very good Cabinet appointments, and some very bad ones. His best was Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, who surprised the world by calling for substantial reductions in the sizes of the Allied navies.
Meanwhile, in the city of Tulsa, an accident in an elevator becomes the worst incident of racial violence in US history: The Tulsa Massacre.
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“Ain’t We Got Fun?”
Composed in 1920 by Richard Whiting, lyrics by Raymond Egan and Gus Kahn.
Performed by Billy Jones. Public domain recording. Source.
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