Return to normalcy - Wikipedia Return to normalcy Harding called for `` A Return to Normalcy. '' Return to normalcy, a return to the way of life before World War I, was United States presidential candidate Warren G. Harding 's campaign slogan for the election of 1920. Although detractors believed that the word was a neologism as well as a malapropism, coined by Harding ( as opposed to the more accepted term normality ), there was contemporaneous discussion and evidence found that normalcy had been listed in dictionaries as far back as 1857. Harding 's promise was to return the United States prewar mentality, without the thought of war tainting the minds of the American people. To sum up his points, he stated : `` America 's present need is not heroics, but healing ; not nostrums, but normalcy ; not revolution, but restoration ; not agitation, but adjustment ; not surgery, but serenity ; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate ; not experiment, but equipoise ; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality. '' Contents 1 1920 election 2 See also 3 References 4 External links 1920 election Harding 's position attracted support and was important during the United States presidential election, 1920, which he won with 60.3 % of the popular vote. During the campaign, Harding addressed the issue of the word 's origin, claiming that `` normalcy '' but not `` normality '' appeared in his dictionary : I have noticed that word caused considerable news editors to change it to `` normality ''. I have looked for `` normality '' in my dictionary and I do not find it there. `` Normalcy '', however, I did find, and it is a good word. See also Creeping normalcy References Jump up ^ `` normalcy '', Answers.com. Jump up ^ The Mavens ' Word of the Day : normalcy, June 25, 1999, randomhouse.com. Jump up ^ `` Return to Normalcy '', teachingamericanhistory.org Jump up ^ `` Election of 1920 : Republican and the Return to Normalcy ''. Jump up ^ Kory Stamper ( 29 October 2013 ). `` Obama did n't use improper grammar. Cut him and other public figures a break ''. The Guardian. Guardian News and Media Limited. Retrieved 23 February 2014. External links Look up normalcy in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. `` Normalcy '', The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, 3rd ed., edited by E.D. Hirsch, Jr., et al. Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 2002. ISBN 0 - 618 - 22647 - 8. `` A Time for Normalcy '' by Evan Jenkins, Columbia Journalism Review, January / February 2002. This article related to the politics of the United States is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. This vocabulary - related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. This article relating to the history of the United States is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Return_to_normalcy&oldid=815486556 '' Categories : American political neologisms United States presidential domestic programs United States politics stubs Vocabulary and usage stubs United States history stubs Talk Contents About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 15 December 2017, at 03 : 26. About Wikipedia

Question: who called for return to normalcy following the war
Answer: Warren G. Harding