National Affairs: Presidential Relicts

The death of President Harding increases to four the number of widows, now living, of former Presidents. Besides Florence Kling Harding they are:

Mrs. Edith Kermit Carow Roosevelt, the second wife of President Roosevelt (married in 1886, two years after the death of his first wife). During her husband's terms in the White House she was very retiring and has been even more so since that time. Nevertheless, at the time of President Harding's entrance to office she was proposed (by the Portia Club) as a member of the Harding Cabinet. In 1919 Andrew...

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