Harry Truman had the highest rate of decree issuance (113 p.a.), while Warren Harding had the lowest rate (just 2 p.a.).

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Yes, Coolidge signed the 1924 Johnson-Reed Act, which tightened quotas, and another Republican, Warren Harding, signed an earlier law that restricted entry.

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Republicans are very good at finding the right sort of man to win such elections: Warren Harding in 1920, Dwight Eisenhower in 1952, Richard Nixon in 1968.

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Jim Powell, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, explains how William Gladstone in the U.K. and Warren Harding in the U.S. got it done: by keeping the functions of the state to a minimum.

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