In many instances, Warren Harding was known to defer to his (ahem) assertive wife Florence...not always, to be sure, but often enough. It's been reported that Florence, something of a superstitious sort, had some sort of vision that tragedy would be associated with her husband and the presidency (see, for example, 1920: The Year of Six Presidents).
Suppose she dug in her heels and did everything she could to get him to stand down from being a candidate in 1920? Are we back to that recent thread titled something along the general lines of "If not Harding, then Who"? Or might this have ripple effects (apart from the snickers it would generate at the convention) that would lead the 1920 GOP in a different direction--say, a draft of Herbert Hoover, whose eminently practical wife had no such predilections?
Suppose she dug in her heels and did everything she could to get him to stand down from being a candidate in 1920? Are we back to that recent thread titled something along the general lines of "If not Harding, then Who"? Or might this have ripple effects (apart from the snickers it would generate at the convention) that would lead the 1920 GOP in a different direction--say, a draft of Herbert Hoover, whose eminently practical wife had no such predilections?