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Suppose, on astute advice from others, Harding kept (the worst of) the Ohio Gang at a distance or out of appointive office altogether, and perhaps made one other insightful appointment? If so, how would his administration played out, and how would he be viewed today? As a jumping-off point, let's suppose that his cabinet looked like this in 1921:

State: Charles Evans Hughes
Treasury: Charles Dawes (OTL: Andrew Mellon)
War: John Weeks
Justice: Harlan Fiske Stone (OTL: Harry Daugherty)
Postmaster: Will Hays
Navy: Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (OTL: Edwin Denby)
Interior: William Sproul (OTL: Albert Fall)
Agriculture: Henry C. Wallace
Commerce: Herbert Hoover
Labor: James J. Davis
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