Harding scandals

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1. Major incidents of corruption in government that occurred while Warren Harding was president in the early 1920s. The most notable, called the Teapot Dome scandal, involved the lease of federally owned oil reserve lands to private interests, in return for bribes. Several high officials, including the secretary of the interior, were ultimately convicted for their part in the affair. Although not personally implicated in the wrongdoing, Harding had clearly made a bad choice of associates and was shaken by the scandals.

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Author Allen gives what he says is the first connected account of the Harding scandals, of the late lamented Bull Market.

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After the Harding scandals, the Coolidge and Hoover administrations were as clean as Washington had been for generations.

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