President-Elect Warren G. Harding of Ohio
Improvement Era, vol. 24, no. 2, December 1920, p. 129
Young Men’s Mutual Improvement Associations
PRESIDENT-ELECT WARREN G. HARDING OF OHIO Receiving the election returns at his home, in Marion, Ohio, November 2, which indicated his election to the Presidency of the United States, on that day, and which, by the by, was his fifty-fifth anniversary, he issued d statement saying: "I am happy to utter my gratitude, but I am not exultant. * * * It is all so serious, the obligations are so solemn, that instead of exulting I am more given to prayer to God to make me capable of playing my part, and that all these calls to responsibility may meet the aspirations and expectations of America and the world."