Chapter Fourteen
A Family Interlude
TIME MAGAZINE, which over the years kept a skeptical eye trained on Albert Lasker, concluded in the spring of 1923 that the Shipping Board chairman exerted an influence on President Harding that was both “striking” and “mysterious.”
Harding had two types of associates, said Time: official advisers and “playmates.” What was unique about Lasker, the Time reporter continued, was that he was both an adviser and a playmate. “Able in conversation, brilliant at storytelling, and fond of golf,” Time concluded. “Little ...
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