Warren Harding: Pardoned scores of political prisoners (including Debs 
), oversaw perhaps the greatest per-capita decimation of the military budget in US history; and I have a soft spot for our first black president 
Harding doesn't make my top 10 (death & scandals hold him back), but he be in my top 20.
He brought peace, freedom & prosperity after the war, repression, recession & riots of Wilson.
He ended Wilson's segregation of federal offices & supporting anti-lynching legislation
He reduced taxes and reducing the government control of businesses instituted in the Wilson years
He appointed Taft, and others, to the SC
He pushed through the Budget & Accounting Act which created the more systematic federal budgeting system we are accustomed to today.
He brought about the Washington Naval Agreement which was an impressive naval arms control agreement
He signed peace treaties with Germany and Austria, which replaced Wlson's failed Treaty of Versailles.
He dealt successfully with Labor and Business regarding strikes and work conditions in the steel industry
He established the VA
Some strong Cabinet choices -- Hughes, Hoover, Mellon, Wallace, Davis, Weeks -- But also some bad ones -- Denby, Fall, Daugherty
