my great grandfather helped woodroe wilson and fdr become president.d him, the more i saw that as i got into the this and i had all of the myths of harding in my head when i started looking at this that had harding become president in 1916, and he had a good chance to do so, the world would have been very different, i think. it's always dank trous gerous tt ifs. the fact is he would have gone in and won -- had he tried, won the nomination instead of charles evans hues who was a very lackluster candidate. brilliant man. supreme court justice, governor of new york, later secretary of state. but not a very good campaigner. still woodroe wilson almost did not beat him. one of the big differences was ohio. ohio went for wilson by 90,000 votes. that was 24 electoral votes at that time. it would have been a landslide the other way for harding had he won easily just as did he in 1920 when he beat jamest kox, a newspaper man running for kox communication today running in 1920. i think had harding been president in 1916 that you would have had a different questi