PRESIDENT UNHAPPY ABOUT PROPOSALS PUSHED ON HIM BY CONGRESS
St. Augustine, Florida (JFK+50) On March 11, 1922, the Evening Star reports that President Warren G. Harding is here in St. Augustine, not for a needed rest, but because "he is getting weary of the estimate which certain leaders* in Congress are placing upon his leadership."
David Lawrence writes that the President "does not like bluster and political fireworks," and thus "is not happy" about having proposals pushed on him by Congress.
The major issue confronting the President and Congress is the soldiers' bonus.
Mr. Lawrence says the President does not wish to be in Washington "while the bickering is going on if he can help it."
*The President is particularly unhappy with the persistence of Rep. Joseph W. Fordney (R-Michigan), Chairman of the House Ways & Means Committee. JWF served in the US House of Representatives 1899-1923.
JFK+50 NOTE
President Harding made the Ponce de Leon Hotel his headquarters while in St. Augustine. He arrived via the Florida East Coast Railway and was known to frequent the links while in the city.
Once a local cop gave the President's limo driver a ticket for exceeding the 5 m.p.h. city speed limit. Mr. Harding may not have been happy about that either.
SOURCES
"President is Away to Avoid Bickering," by David Lawrence, The Evening Star, Washington, D.C., March 11, 1922, www.chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/
"Winter White House-1921 Style," Augustine.com, www.visitstaugustine.com/
