EVB2948746: Henry Cabot Lodge, Republican Senator from Massachusetts, served from 1893-1924. c. 1920. As Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he lead the Senate's refusal to ratify of the Treaty of Versailles and U.S. membership in the League of Nations / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948754: President Warren Harding signing a bill into law, in the White House Oval Office. August 18, 1922 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948758: Alfred E. Smith and friends in a staged Studio Portrait, on 'The Coney Island Express.' c. 1910. Smith was then a member of the New York State Assembly, serving New York County's 2nd District from 1904 to 1915 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948762: Democratic Presidential Candidate Al Smith on the rear of train, in Chicago. In 1928 he was taking his campaign to the Western States. His strong New York City accent was not easy on many American's ears / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948783: 1920 Republican Vice Presidential nominee, Governor Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts. In the background is Senator Warren Harding, who was elected President. Marion, Ohio, June 30, 1920 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948786: Warren Harding, 29th President of the United States. c. 1921-23 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948804: Charles Evans Hughes (center standing) presides at the closing of the Chile-Peruvian conference. July 21, 1922. The two countries were still disputing territory claims from the War of the Pacific (1877-83), which were finally settled in the Treaty of Lima in 1929 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948805: Republican statesmen, c. 1921-23 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948807: Col. Charles Forbes was appointed as first Director of the Veterans' Bureau by President Harding. Forbes controlled a ,000,000 (6 billion in 2010) yearly budget to aid World War I veterans. His corruption resulted in his Feb. 1923 flight to Britain, and upon his return, imprisonment in 1926 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948811: President Warren Harding and the First Lady with veterans at White House garden party, June 7, 1922 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948812: Attorney General Harry Daugherty after meeting with new President Calvin Coolidge. White House, Aug. 13, 1923. Seven months later Coolidge asked for his resignation because of allegations of taking bribes and selling pardons. Daugherty was indicted, tried, but acquitted in 1926 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948813: Coal strike brings hundreds of telegrams to Attorney Gen. Harry Daugherty's (2nd from left) office. 1922. The postwar Red Scare had tainted unions, including the UMW (United Mine Workers), who were unable to defend their members from reduced wages and non-union mines / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948823: President Warren Harding and First Lady Florence Kling Harding. March 5, 1923. Her black neckband was adopted by fashionable young women and called a 'flossie cling', a double-entendre: the neckbands were shiny and clung to the neck, as well as it being a play on First Lady’s maiden name / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948836: Aerial view of the United States Capitol from south east, c. 1921-22 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948842: President Calvin Coolidge. He assumed the Presidency after the death of Warren Harding on August 2, 1923 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948846: President Calvin Coolidge in full length portrait on south lawn of the White House, 1925 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948849: President Calvin Coolidge at the same desk used by Harding in the Oval Office. Photo was published on Aug. 14, 1923, less than two weeks after the death of Warren Harding. Florence Harding was upset that Coolidge sat at this desk for photographers before Warren Harding's body returned to the White House / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948853: Former President Woodrow Wilson calls at White House the day after Warren Harding's death, August 3, 1923 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948856: George F. Mitchell testing tea on Jan. 12, 1925. He was the Supervising Tea Examiner at the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture's Bureau of Chemistry, which evolved into the Food and Drug Administration / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948858: Gifford Pinchot with his family, c. 1922 when he successfully ran for Governor of Pennsylvania. He met Cornelia Bryce through their mutual friend Theodore Roosevelt and they married in 1913. On the pony is their son, Gifford Bryce Pinchot, and his friend / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948860: Enduring politician William Jennings Bryan on Dec. 12, 1923. He dedicated the last decade of his life to promoting Prohibition and women's suffrage. He crusaded against Darwinism and the theory of evolution for years before his participation in the 1925 Scopes Trial / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948282: President Barack Obama and Cabinet listen as Chief of Staff Jack Lew, center, speaks. Cabinet Room of the White House, Jan. 31, 2012 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948285: Secretary Janet Napolitano administers the oath during a military naturalization ceremony. These non-citizen residents of the U.S. Military qualified for expedited citizenship. President Barack Obama attended the ceremony / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948299: President Obama talks with Chief of Staff Jack Lew, center, and Treasury Sec. Timothy Geithner. White House Colonnade, Jan. 10, 2013 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948301: President Barack Obama's senior advisors before a phone call with Russia's Vladimir Putin. July 18, 2012. From left: Chris Mizelle, Dir. For Russia and Central Asia, NSS; National Security Advisor Tom Donilon; Chief of Staff Jack Lew; and Denis McDonough, Deputy National Security Advisor / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948306: President Obama's staff carry in their chairs before an Oval Office meeting. Feb. 7, 2012. At left the President talks with Senior Advisor Valerie Jarrett / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948310: CIA Director David Petraeus speaking during a National Security meeting as Obama (left) listens. Situation Room of the White House, Sept. 10, 2011 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948328: President Barack Obama greets U.S. troops at Bagram Air Field, Afghanistan. May 1, 2012 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948329: President Obama welcomes service members and their families to the White House Family Theater. They are prepared to watch the 3-D movie, MEN IN BLACK 3, May 25, 2012 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948395: Battle of the Falaise Pocket from August 12-21, 1944 was the decisive Battle of Normandy. The German Army was destroyed with remnants fleeing northwest to Belgium. Photo shows unhelmeted Canadian soldiers near a German truck at Falaise. World War 2 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948423: Coretta Scott King at the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam War, Oct. 15, 1969. Holding a candle, the widow of Martin Luther King, Jr. lead the night march to the White House / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948431: Women Marines arriving at the Hawaiian Islands with their field packs. During World War 2, Feb. 28, 1945 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948441: Aerial view of Hughes Flying-boat seaplane under construction at its dock in Long Beach, 1947. The prototype was named 'Hughes H-4 Hercules', but better known as the 'Spruce Goose' because of its wood (birch) construction. Developed as a troop transport, it was six times larger than any aircraft of its time. On Nov. 2, 1947 it made its only test flight, because the war that caused its creation was over / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948450: Thermonuclear bomb in the U.S. Arsenal in 2011. The Mk/B53 was a high-yield bunker buster thermonuclear weapon developed in the 1960s, by the United States during the Cold War. Deployed on Strategic Air Command bombers, the B53, had a yield of 9 megatons. The last B53 was disassembled on 25 October 2011 / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948454: American 'door gunner' scans the Vietnamese landscape from a helicopter. Mar. 25, 1962. Photo by Robert Pepper Martin / Bridgeman Images

EVB2948461: Farmers drinking beer during fall harvest in Jackson, Michigan. Fall 1941. In the background is a potentially dangerous harvesting machine, that requires alert workers / Bridgeman Images