Warren Harding: “I loved the martial notes of those stirring verses as a boy. I love them still.”

We do not challenge the utility of the League of Nations to others; we wish it more power in every righteous exercise of its functions; but it is clearly not for us as presented in the Versailles covenant.

Through such effort as this there will be opportunity for a great service.

All I ask is that you will not barter away Oregon or allow English interference until I can lead a band of stalwart American settlers across the plains. For this I shall try to do.

We avoided controversy and recorded accomplishment.