Chapter 33 Outline Catherine Snyder The Republican ?Old Guard? Returns Warren G Harding: became president in 1921, was a people-person, couldn?t see the immoral-ness in his associates Charles Evans Hughes: secretary of state, conservative leadership Andrew W. Mellon: new secretary of treasury, multimillionaire Herbert Hoover: secretary of commerce, wartime food administrator, important in foreign trade for US manufacturers Senator Albert B. Fall: New Mexico, anticonservationist, secretary of the interior Harry M. Daugherty: deceiving attorney general GOP Reaction at the Throttle Old Guard: wanted to get rid of progressive reforms and go back to laissez-faire government to the extent of guiding business to profit Taft: new chief justice, more liberal