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The Teapot Dome scandal was a political corruption scandal in the United States involving the administration of President Warren G. Harding.It centered on Interior Secretary Albert Bacon Fall, who had leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome in Wyoming, as well as two locations in California, to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. [1]
Hagiographic accounts of Harding's life quickly followed his death, such as Joe Mitchell Chapple's Life and Times of Warren G. Harding, Our After-War President (1924). [3] By then, however, the scandals were breaking, and the Harding administration soon became a byword for corruption in the view of the public.
During the Harding administration, several members of the Ohio Gang became involved in financial scandals. These included the Teapot Dome scandal and apparent malfeasance at the U.S. Department of Justice , some of which ended in prison terms and a suicide.
President Warren G. Harding’s legacy is largely tied to the scandal involving government-owned oil fields in Wyoming and California where his Secretary of the Interior, Albert Fall, “had ...
Hagiographic accounts of Harding's life quickly followed his death, such as Joe Mitchell Chapple's Life and Times of Warren G. Harding, Our After-War President (1924). [255] By then, the scandals were breaking, and the Harding administration soon became a byword for corruption in the view of the public.
The Scandal: The Ponzi Scheme ... The players: Warren Harding, Albert B. Fall. The story: In 1921, President Harding issued an executive order transferring control of the Teapot Dome, Wyoming, oil ...
Hagiographic accounts of Harding's life quickly followed his death, such as Joe Mitchell Chapple's Life and Times of Warren G. Harding, Our After-War President (1924). [203] By then, the scandals were breaking, and the Harding administration soon became a byword for corruption in the view of the public.
There are many winning documentaries about Harding and the 1994 scandal that cost her her promising career. ESPN’s 30 for 30 series boasts the 2014 Harding-Kerrigan episode "Price of Gold" ...