James Blaesing told an Ohio court that he is seeking Harding’s disinterment as a way “to establish with scientific certainty” that he is the 29th president’s blood relation.
The dispute looms as benefactors prepare to mark the centennial of Harding's 1920 election with site upgrades and a new presidential center in Marion, the Ohio city near which he was born in 1865. Blaesing says he deserves to “have his story, his mother’s story and his grandmother’s story included within the hallowed halls and museums in this town.”
A branch of the Harding family has pushed back against the suit filed in May — not because they dispute Blaesing's ancestry, but because they don’t.
The Best President of the U. S. that we ever had, Warren G. Harding. He is the guy that solved the depression-before-the-great depression, by doing what elected officials are supposed to do.
ReplyDeleteGod bless Warren Harding.
"Deserve". What a despicable word, in almost any context. It must have never read Ayn Rand.
ReplyDeleteThe Hardings are dead. Let them alone.
ReplyDeleteSounds like the museum is giving his story the attention it actually deserves, a footnote.
ReplyDeleteHis motive likely is to get an Obama style Netflix payoff.
DeleteThe caption below the picture uses the term "illegitimate grandson"; it is his mother who was illegitimate. BTW, pictures of Harding's once teenage lover show her as a pretty cute-though highly obsessed-girl. Go figure.
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