The Chancellor Affair: The FBI File: The True Story about How President Warren G. Harding Abused Power in the White House and Silenced His Most Vocal Critic

By Monte Robison

The American economy is in a recession. The Republican president, with strong ties to the oil industry, is dim-witted but loyal to a fault. The US Attorney General is abusing power against American citizens. And a book, written by an outspoken political critic, bashes the president and causes an uproar among the masses.

Looking back almost

• Language: English
• Publisher: Monte Robison
• Release date: Nov 21, 2019
• ISBN: 9781647130930

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THE CHANCELLOR AFFAIR:

THE FBI FILE

The True Story about How President Warren G. Harding Abused Power in the White House and Silenced His Most Vocal Critic

by Monte Robison

© 2017-2019 Monte Robison

www.monterobison.com

All rights reserved. No part may be reproduced in any form without permission.

Published by Filmtheory LLC, Austin, Texas

Certain references in this book contain words and quotes from other published sources, which were based on outdated cultural depictions. Use of certain words herein is only to maintain historical accuracy of the figures and events involved.

ISBN ebook 978-1-64713-093-0

William Estabrook Chancellor

The American economy is in a recession. The Republican president, with strong ties to the oil industry, is dim-witted but loyal to a fault. The US Attorney General is abusing power against American citizens. And a book, written by an outspoken political critic, bashes the President and causes an uproar among the masses.

Looking back almost 100 years, a previously untold retribution scenario played itself out with President Warren G. Harding, Attorney General Harry Daugherty and college professor, William Estabrook Chancellor.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Title Page

The Opening

The Rumors

Chancellor’s Past

Harding’s Rise

The Research

Blooming Grove

The Scandal

The Suppression

Harding Wins

Confrontation

The Escape And Publication

Harding’s Short Term

The Aftermath

Postscript

Bibliography

About The Author

THE OPENING

In the fall of 1920, Professor William Estabrook Chancellor investigated the quietly whispered rumors that Republican presidential candidate, Warren G. Harding, was of partial African-American ancestry.

Chancellor initially hoped to turn his research into an addendum to his previous history book, Our Presidents and Their Office, which offered a chronicled history of the United States presidents from Washington through Taft.

Harding, on the cusp of becoming the 29th US President, justifiably feared that Chancellor’s investigation into his past would lead to his political downfall. The Harding administration’s subsequent acts of intimidation and blackmail were extreme and without precedent at the time. The end result was a total cover-up that remains relatively unknown, even to most historians.

To this day, the historical incident itself has never developed into more than a footnote in mainstream history books. In the end, the validity of the race allegations is of little importance in comparison to the harsh acts of retaliation by a sitting US President against an ordinary citizen.

In the past eighty years, some academic articles have sporadically appeared on certain aspects of the incident, and Chancellor is given a brief overview in the abundant Harding biographies. Unfortunately, the academic articles are usually poorly researched and documented. Most of them rely on other inaccurate accounts and references