Magazine content is available exclusively for TIME subscribers.CAMPAIGN: Forgotten Justice
Fourteen years ago, President Warren Gamaliel Harding received a letter saying: "I shall be 65 years old the 18th of the month. For a long time I have promised what I think is my better self that at that age I would free myself as much as possible from imperative duties to the end that I may have time to read many books which I have not had time to read in a busy life, to travel and to serve my neighbors and some public causes. ... As a beginning ... I hereby resign."...
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