Make Warren Harding One of the Greatest US presidents

With a POD of no earlier than his inaguration make Warren Harding one of the Greatest US presidents. Note: Don't post in this identical thread in the Before-1900 forum
 
OTL Harding pardons Eugen Debs. Harding can follow that up by completely repealing the Esponiage Act. Harding lives and follows up the success of the Washington Naval Conference with other other disarmament talks and eventually agrees for the U.S. to enter the League Of Nations in return for reforms in the leagues structure, favorable trade agreements with the U.S. and reductions of Germany's reparations so that Germany can buy more American products.

Harding then follows up his pardoning of Debs by denouncing the Red Scare and firing young J. Edgar Hoover from the FBI. OTL Harding supported the 19th Amendment. Harding appoints Jane Addams either the first women Secretary of Labor or U.S. ambassador to the League of Nations.

OTL Harding supported Black civil rights. He even got praise from W.E.B. Dubois He ended Wilsons policy of exluding blacks from government posts. OTL Harding supported an anti lynching law but he never followed through on it. In this TL he follows through on it with his Republican Congress. William McAdoo can be the Democratic nominee in 1924 and Harding can denounce Mcadoo's Klan ties. I assume that Harding lives longer. He fires his corrupt subordinates and crusades against corruption. He also appoints Smedley Butler to head the newly formed Veterans Bureau.
 
Perhaps Harding could also take a bit more of a progressive line when dealing with the economy, thereby instituting some reforms to lessen the impact of the Great Depression.
 
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