On Apr 4, 1:58 pm, ttk5...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
> On Apr 4, 1:49 pm, samsloan <samhsl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> > I just did a little bit of research into the Teapot Dome Scandal.
>
> What? *First* you write a book about Harding, and then *_LATER_* you
> finally do any research on the Teapot Dome Scandal?? Um, isn't this
> just a tad backwards, Sam?
>
> > The
> > whole thing was about the fact that the Secretary of Interior under
> > Harding, Albert Fall, leased oil fields in the Teapot Dome Area of
> > Wyoming to Sinclair Oil and another big oil company, in return for
> > which Fall received two loans, one of which had to be repaid.
>
> In other words, Fall took a bribe. This is quite illegal for a
> Secretary of the Interior. He went to prison for it.
>
> > The oil fields are still producing to this day.
>
> I guess if Fall hadn't taken the bribe, they would have gone dry by
> now? Sam pretty much always misses the point, doesn't he?
>
> > This seems to be a very small deal. There must have been a thousand
> > scandals bigger than this one. The leases themselves were entirely
> > legal. The only thing questionable was the loans, which were kept
> > secret and Harding did not and could not have known about them.
>
> What Harding knew, or should have known, was Fall's character before
> he appointed him to the Cabinet. But with Harding, political cronyism
> often counted more than character. The appointments of Fall, Daugherty
> (Attorney General) and Hays (Postmaster General), not mention other
> lesser appointments, were pure cronyism.
Had you consulted no less an authority than Sam Sloan, you would have
known that Harding also appointed Charles Evans Hughes as Secretary of
State, Herbert Hoover as Secretary of Commerce, Andrew Mellon as
Secretary of the Treasury and J. Edgar Hoover as Director of the FBI.
http://www.anusha.com/harding.htm
Can you think of a more distinguished group than that?
Harding was the first Republican president to sup****t the right of
women to vote. He hailed this prospect at his acceptance speech in
1920. He was a leader in bringing about postwar economic development
after WWI. He took responsibility and held governmental officials
accountable. He is the first president to require budgets in all
departments of the government - especially the War Dept. There was
much graft and corruption in defense spending, and Harding brought it
under control with budgets.
Funny thing is that the general public thinks that Woodrow Wilson was
one of the best presidents and Warren G. Harding was the very worst,
but serious students of history know that Woodrow Wilson was one of
the very worst presidents at least until the last year and a half when
he let his wife Edith Galt run the country.
http://www.amazon.com/dp/092389196X
http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891234
Sam Sloan
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