America’s present need is not heroics but healing; . . not revolution but restoration; . . not submergence in internationality but sustainment in triumphant nationality. —warren g. harding, presidential campaign speech, 1920 this excerpt illustrates harding’s campaign promise to be a president who would — a the country recover from the turmoil of the previous decade b improve economic growth by promoting unrestricted immigration c refuse to allow the continuation of laissez-faire economic policies d use diplomacy to establish alliances with other countries