mystery unresolved,woman who may have been Harding's child dies

[Algorem]

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/base/news/114906428917700.xml&coll=2

Presidential mystery stays unresolved
Woman who may have been Harding's child dies quietly

Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Bill Sloat
Plain Dealer Reporter

Marion -- The last link to President Warren G. Harding's enduring image as a Roaring '20s politico with an overheated libido has passed away in self-imposed obscurity, and her death leaves unsolved the great riddle of her life.

Was Elizabeth Ann Blaesing really the president's illegitimate daughter?

She arrived in the world Oct. 22, 1919, and left it last Nov. 17. Neither event caused any fanfare, but there was plenty of commotion in between.

Over the decades, tell-alls have circulated that Elizabeth Ann was conceived on a Senate office couch during a frisky night between the married Harding and his mistress, Nan Britton...

[trotsky]

1. BWAH HA HA HA

Repukes always have been masters of denial:

It was Nan Britton's charge that Elizabeth Ann was the president's offspring that helped destroy his forebear's reputation, he (Harding's grand-nephew) said.

No, I'd say that his reputation pretty much destroyed itself. Cronyism, incompetence, total inattention to the economy, gee good thing history doesn't repeat itself, huh?

[LisaM]

2. LOL - the article never once mentions that he was a Republican

It also exonerates him from the Teapot Dome scandal.

[Algorem]

3. freaking Plain Dealer.Here's a funny,funny line from their editorial

board-ist/columnist/professional asshole Kevin O'Brien today,about Al Gore's new movie-

"maybe he's just been drinking too much Greenland."

http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/kevin_o_brien/index.ssf?/base/opinion/114906445517700.xml&coll=2&thispage=2

[saltpoint]

4. This would make a thoughtful film, seems like. But who should

play Warren Harding?

I favor the theory that his wife murdered him.