"Americanism really began when it was robed in nationality..." – Warren G. Harding"America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy..." – Warren G. Harding
Bloviation is a style of empty, pompous, political speech that originated in Ohio and was most notably used in his successful 1920 US presidential campaign by Warren G. Harding. He subsequently described it as "the art of speaking for as long as the occasion warrants, and saying nothing".[1] His opponent, William Gibbs McAdoo, compared it to "an army of pompous phrases moving over the landscape in search of an idea."[2]