Harding was not only 'not an awful President', he was a cocksman of the first order dying in the saddle at San Francisco's Palace Hotel. Harding died from what we now call an aneurism and the newspapers kept the local gal out of the story, but she went on to claim some fame in her later years as a senior hostess working with Sausalito madam Sally Stanford.
BTW, best Depression book is Forgotten Man, by Amity Shlaes.