JoeMulk
Banned
AUGUST 2, 1923 HARDING DEAD OF APPARENT HEART ATTACK, EDGE SWORN IN AS PRESIDENT
Walter Edge, 30th President of the United States
Arthur Schlessinger-Blood and Treasure, Jack Johnson's path to the White House (C) 1966
"Upon taking office President Edge was immediately greated with the same suspicions that had previously greated him upon his selection as Vice-President, Namely his connection to Jack Johnson. In addition many of the devout dries within the Republican Party talked of a primary challenge or backing a dry Democrat. However the economy was roaring and few people cared. President Edge maintained his distance from Enoch Johnson, who despite begining to clean up his reputation was still too suspect to serve in government. He did occasionally have the Johnson clan to the White House and shielded Atlantic City's local government from justice department inquiries. However this was not enough for Enoch Johnson whose later service in the Roosevelt administration was perhaps his way of getting even."
"Walter Edge was perhaps the freeweahling laid-back celebrity president that America needed in the 1920s. He frequently dined with movie stars and had a notorious reputation for womenizing which was an open secret in Washington at the time. With the economy roaring and most Americans exhusted from the progressive era they were content to have a president that did not seem to take things very seriously. It was this that allowed him to roar to two landslide victories. Upon the start of the great depression though many Americans felt the need for a bold leader who would try new things and alliviate the economy. Edge's tragic downfall was that he was stuck in the 1920s Laiszess Fair mindset and ignored the screames of "Edgevilles." Perhaps the only positive, the moment Americans temporerily rejoiced was in 1930 when he signed the repeal of the eighteenth amendment into law. On the whole though he was setting up the country for a long term rejection of the Republican philosophy. This was made clear when in 1932 commerce secretery Herbert Hoover despite attempts to run away from Edge and promise progressive reforms was blown out."-The Edge Story (C) 1990
July 1938, Malibu California
The chauffeur opened the door of the Rolls-Royce. Jack Johnson got out and climed the marble steps to the Villa, greeting the maid at the door. Everybody wanted to see him, everybody wanted to know how the filming of Midnight Run was going. Jack just wanted to get this over with but had a bad feeling about how it was going to turn out. He met his father on the back porch which backed up to the endless beach, a cigar dangled from his mouth and he looked up from the newspaper. This was one of the many estates that he came to get away from business although he had been meeting with California Republican leaders earlier in the day. The Roosevelt administration had let him out of his SEC chairmanship after his reelection and now as the 1938 elections approached with the second wave of new deal legislation floundering Enoch clearly saw which way the winds were blowing and was trying to get in good with the GOP again. "Jack my boy, how's the filming going, can I buy you a drink?" he asked, appearing to be in a cheerful enough mood although you could never know with him, since he always yelled at you as if he were ready to start a fight. All the wealth hadn't really altered his essential nature. "It's going good dad, no thanks listen there's something I wanna talk to you about." "What's on your mind son?" Enoch asked, putting the paper away. "Listen I know that the plan is to transfer to Harvard this year but i'm not sure I want to right away, I don't know what i'm doing in college anymore, I think that acting is my true potential and that I should take some time off and..." Before he could finish Enoch cut him off. "Over my dead body, after all the steps i've taken to legitimize this family, all i've sacrified hell will freeze over before my eldest son doesn't get a college degree!" He could try to argue but deep down Jack Johnson knew that his destiny had been laid out for him regardless of how he felt about it.
Walter Edge, 30th President of the United States
Arthur Schlessinger-Blood and Treasure, Jack Johnson's path to the White House (C) 1966
"Upon taking office President Edge was immediately greated with the same suspicions that had previously greated him upon his selection as Vice-President, Namely his connection to Jack Johnson. In addition many of the devout dries within the Republican Party talked of a primary challenge or backing a dry Democrat. However the economy was roaring and few people cared. President Edge maintained his distance from Enoch Johnson, who despite begining to clean up his reputation was still too suspect to serve in government. He did occasionally have the Johnson clan to the White House and shielded Atlantic City's local government from justice department inquiries. However this was not enough for Enoch Johnson whose later service in the Roosevelt administration was perhaps his way of getting even."
"Walter Edge was perhaps the freeweahling laid-back celebrity president that America needed in the 1920s. He frequently dined with movie stars and had a notorious reputation for womenizing which was an open secret in Washington at the time. With the economy roaring and most Americans exhusted from the progressive era they were content to have a president that did not seem to take things very seriously. It was this that allowed him to roar to two landslide victories. Upon the start of the great depression though many Americans felt the need for a bold leader who would try new things and alliviate the economy. Edge's tragic downfall was that he was stuck in the 1920s Laiszess Fair mindset and ignored the screames of "Edgevilles." Perhaps the only positive, the moment Americans temporerily rejoiced was in 1930 when he signed the repeal of the eighteenth amendment into law. On the whole though he was setting up the country for a long term rejection of the Republican philosophy. This was made clear when in 1932 commerce secretery Herbert Hoover despite attempts to run away from Edge and promise progressive reforms was blown out."-The Edge Story (C) 1990
July 1938, Malibu California
The chauffeur opened the door of the Rolls-Royce. Jack Johnson got out and climed the marble steps to the Villa, greeting the maid at the door. Everybody wanted to see him, everybody wanted to know how the filming of Midnight Run was going. Jack just wanted to get this over with but had a bad feeling about how it was going to turn out. He met his father on the back porch which backed up to the endless beach, a cigar dangled from his mouth and he looked up from the newspaper. This was one of the many estates that he came to get away from business although he had been meeting with California Republican leaders earlier in the day. The Roosevelt administration had let him out of his SEC chairmanship after his reelection and now as the 1938 elections approached with the second wave of new deal legislation floundering Enoch clearly saw which way the winds were blowing and was trying to get in good with the GOP again. "Jack my boy, how's the filming going, can I buy you a drink?" he asked, appearing to be in a cheerful enough mood although you could never know with him, since he always yelled at you as if he were ready to start a fight. All the wealth hadn't really altered his essential nature. "It's going good dad, no thanks listen there's something I wanna talk to you about." "What's on your mind son?" Enoch asked, putting the paper away. "Listen I know that the plan is to transfer to Harvard this year but i'm not sure I want to right away, I don't know what i'm doing in college anymore, I think that acting is my true potential and that I should take some time off and..." Before he could finish Enoch cut him off. "Over my dead body, after all the steps i've taken to legitimize this family, all i've sacrified hell will freeze over before my eldest son doesn't get a college degree!" He could try to argue but deep down Jack Johnson knew that his destiny had been laid out for him regardless of how he felt about it.