Upon visiting the Whitehouse where she spent many of her formative years Alice Roosevelt made this account of how Harding had changed her childhood home:
Harding smoked, chewed tobacco, and drank. Mrs. Harding called “The Duchess” in her crowd, was always there, playing poker or tending drinks. “She asked me upstairs at the whitehouse and what been my father’s library I was shown every known gambling device and drinks galore” wrote Theodore Roosevelt’s daughter Alice, her sense of propriety finally offended. The Harding Whitehouse featured “the general atmosphere of a convivial gambling saloon”, all in the era of prohibition.
Coolidge by Amity Schlaes pg.227
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