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      • The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923.
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  2. Mar 23, 2023 · President Harding's scandals included hush‑money to mistresses, secret payments for an out‑of‑wedlock child and far‑reaching corruption.

  3. Sep 12, 2024 · Warren G. Harding - Scandals, Politics, Controversy: The nation plunged into mourning, little suspecting that the beloved leader they eulogized as “an ideal American” would soon be revealed to have been the head of the most corrupt administration in the nation’s history.

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  4. The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery scandal involving the administration of United States President Warren G. Harding from 1921 to 1923. Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall 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 ...

  5. Aug 8, 2016 · First was Carrie Phillips, with whom Harding had a 15-year affair, cutting it off in 1920 just as he was getting his campaign for president underway.

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  6. Transcript. On April 14, 1922, The Wall Street Journal broke a story about bribes, corruption, and secret deals worth millions in oil money in the American West. The secretary of the interior was implicated in these crimes. The next day the Senate launched an official investigation.

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  7. Oct 29, 2009 · Harding’s presidency was overshadowed by the criminal activities of some of his cabinet members and other government officials, although he himself was not directly involved in any wrongdoing.

  8. Harding was appalled by the treatment of African-Americans and even fought for desegregation in Washington, D.C. Several scandals among his friends he put in the Cabinet occurred. Most famously, the Teapot Dome Scandal involved Albert Fall, Harding's Secretary of the Interior.