attraveled with eugene debs one point, the socialist candidate for president. mooney was an active labor organizer and certainly on the political left. he catches the eye of the rena,ities and his wife, she spent her days as a music teacher. she had a studio in san francisco. the authorities would call it a den, which makes it seem ominous, but she had a using studio. mooney and his wife, but especially mooney, attract the attention of the authorities. when they were arrested, they were held in solitary confinement. they were not allowed to talk to family, friends or legal counsel. assistant da told a local reporter that the suspects "ought to be hung without ceremony." in other words, let's do this quickly and have a fast conviction. on august 2, they were jointly charged with murder. this became an interesting part of the legal story, but the authorities considered them all part of the same conspiracy. when one was tried, evidence would be used against the other one. it was very complex and probably a little unfair. will tell you, as the investigation got und

eugene debs, the socialist leader, was sent to prison under wilson. subsequently, a document was pushed before wilson to free him from the penitentiary. harding granted debs' freedom really than was expected, because he said he wanted to be able to have christmas dinner with his wife. he had to have debs come in to see him. he didn't want this to be a routine action. when debs enters the oval ounds outarding balanc extended, andhand says i am so excited for the opportunity to be able to talk to mr. debs. that is how harding was a little different from the unhappily corrupt conservative president. a man who is just as bad as we always thought he was. he inhabits the other pages of my treatment of harding. mr. holzer: you have given him some humanity tonight and in the book. the incident described is so seemingly out of character from the harding that we know. there is a wonderful story about coolidge. i love your story that he had so little to interest him in the white house that he used to count the dollars that went by to occupy himself. as've also d

one of the things he did was parting eugene debs, who would be put in prison as a protester against world war i. you are right, crowds of necessarily predict anything for sure, but i think it is suggested in this case. thank you. yes? do you need a microphone? he is going to hand you one. >> it appears that florence was treated by conventional physicians, but i had read that president harding was treated by a homeopathic physician and that may have contributed to a misdiagnosis in his death. dr. sibley: charles sawyer was his physician, and yes, i think there were some of that. there were some things done that i think we probably would not consider to be the most effective, but i really trace it to the fact that -- i don't know if anyone read the wonderful book about influence of of -- influenza a couple of years ago. medicine really was the wizard arm of science. this is not much after that. i think the people who were treating him, boone think was more professional. he was younger and maybe more recently educated. there was a moment when harding was doing badly and boone diagnosed it be

one of the things he did was the parting -- pardoning of eugene debs, who wilson be put in prison asrotester against world war i. you are right, crowds don't necessarily predict anything for sure, but i think it is suggested in this case. thank you. yes? do you need a microphone? he is going to hand you one. >> it appears that florence was treated by conventional physicians, but i had read that president harding was treated by a homeopathic physician, and that may have contributed to a misdiagnosis in his death. could you comment on that? dr. sibley: charles sawyer was his physician, and yes, i think there were some of that. i think there were some things that were done that we might not think to be the most effective. what i really traced it to the fact -- i do not know if anyone read the wonderful book about influenza that came out a couple of years ago. the refrain was it was only influenza whenever people were coming out -- were dying out. medicine really was the wizard arm of science. this is not much after that. i think the people who were treating him, like sawyer -- boone, i