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As Harding's vice president, Calvin Coolidge took office for the final year of Harding's presidency. He then ran for president the next year. The election of 1924 was characterized by deep fragmentation of the Democratic Party over such issues as pro...hibition, progressivism, north/south sectionalism, urban/rural disffection, and immigration. The Democratic convention chose John W. Davis, a conservative Democrat, to counter Coolidge, but the liberals decamped to field their own candidate, Wisconsin Senator Robert M. La Follete, under a New Progressive Party banner. With the Democratic Party divided, Coolidge made a clean sweep into the White House.
A no-nonsense New Englander, Coolidge believed "the business of America is business," and the sharks of industry forged ahead unrestrained in their ambitions, their production, and sometimes in their damage.
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December 7, 2009 at 10:00 PM
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