DNA Confirms President Harding’s Illegitimate Paternity of Nan Britton’s Baby

Resolution of an unsolved scandalous rumor concerning a long-forgotten presidential peccadillo has been confirmed by DNA testing. President Warren Gamaliel Harding was indeed the father of mistress Nan Britton’s “love child.” Years after Harding’s sudden and abrupt death while in office, Britton attempted to publish The President’s Daughter, an account of their affair.

Unable to find a publisher who was willing to publish and distribute the book, the book was published by the Elizabeth Ann Guild, an organization that Britton founded to take up the cause of children born out of wedlock. Prior to its release, the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice (the same organization once headed by Anthony Comstock) arranged for the New York City Police to seize both the unbound printed sheets and the zinc printing plates; all materials were returned to the Elizabeth Ann Guild. Prior to publication, Congressman John Tillman (D-Arkansas) introduced a bill into the United States House of Representatives attempting to ban the sale of the book stating that the work was “a blast from Hell“. Tillman also cited his belief that book was written by a man, not Britton. The measure failed.

The book languished unsold until America’s most famous and controversial journalist, H. L. Mencken, published a review of it in the Baltimore Evening Sun on July 18, 1927. The volume soon soared to best-seller status.

Besides the Britton affair, historical appraisal of Harding and his administration has been interesting. The vast majority of court historians deem it one of the worst, citing the Tea Pot Dome and ancillary scandals. While select revisionists (particularly those of a libertarian nature) praise its foreign and domestic policies, most notably Harding’s treatment of the Depression of 1921 and his clemency of the imprisoned Socialist presidential candidate Eugene V. Debs. Essentially Harding’s corrupt crony corporatist administration is praised because it was not that of its proto-fascist progressive predecessor Woodrow Wilson. Reminds me of the shrill and venomous partisanship by acolytes of the Bush and Obama regimes, overlooking the undeniable similarity of their Deep State reality.

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