<P> 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 of the time tried to belittle the word `` normalcy '' as a neologism as well as a malapropism , saying that it was poorly coined by Harding ( as opposed to the more accepted term normality ) , there was contemporaneous discussion and evidence 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 : </P>
<P> 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 of the time tried to belittle the word `` normalcy '' as a neologism as well as a malapropism , saying that it was poorly coined by Harding ( as opposed to the more accepted term normality ) , there was contemporaneous discussion and evidence 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 : </P>
who called for a return to normalcy following the war
who called for a return to normalcy following the war
Warren G. Harding
Warren G. Harding