On Apr 4, 5:34 pm, samsloan <samhsl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> On Apr 4, 2:39 pm, ttk5...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
>
> > I append another example of our Sam's research "skills," posted in
> > another thread just a few minutes ago. Referring to the Teapot Dome
> > Scandal, involving bribery for oil leases during the Harding
> > administration (1921-1923), Sam wrote:
>
> > "I fail to see how this one scandal, that did not come out until
> > years after Harding had died, could cause him to be labeled as the
> > Worst President Ever."
>
> > Leaving aside the issue of Harding's worth as a President, I just
> > want to comment on Sloan's claim that this scandal "did not come out
> > until years after Harding died." I quote from the 1988 World Book:
>
> > "In June 1923, Harding ... made the first presidential visit to
> > Canada and Alaska. A long message in code from Wa****ngton reached
> > Harding en route. It brought disturbing news about a Senate
> > investigation of oil leases. Re****ters later said that the depressed
> > Harding asked re****ters what a President could do when his friends
> > betrayed him."
>
> Harding died on that trip when he reached back to San Francisco.
> Obviously, he could have done nothing about it until he got back to
> Wa****ngton.
Which has no bearing on *_when_* the Teapot Dome Scandal became
known. That question was the main point of my post to which you are
replying.
> Also, at that point it was just the beginning on an
> investigation. It was years after Harding died that the investigation
> turned up anything.
So nothing, not even grounds for suspicion, had turned up, yet a
Senate investigation had begun? Rrrrriiiight.
> What about the $6.5 billion contract that was corruptly awarded by
> President Kennedy to build an inferior military aircraft. That was
> obviously a much more serious deal than a legitimate oil lease to
> Sinclare Oil.
This has no bearing on *_when_* the Teapot Dome Scandal became
known, or on any aspect of it.
> The $6.5 billion contract awarded to General Dynamics is what many
> conspiracy theorists believe led to the Kennedy Assassination. That is
> discussed in detail in my other recent book, "Mafia Moll: The Judith
> Exner Story, The Life of the Mistress of John F.
Kennedy"http://www.amazon.com/dp/0923891900
This has no bearing on *_when_* the Teapot Dome Scandal became
known, or on any aspect of it.
> Odd: The $6.5 billion contract to build an inferior aircraft was known
> while Kennedy was President and was under investigation by a Senate
> Committee, but the investigation was shut down after Kennedy was
> assassinated.
This has no bearing on *_when_* the Teapot Dome Scandal became
known, or on any aspect of it.
> Yet, after Harding died of what are believed to be natural causes, he
> was blamed for things that did not become known until years later.
And for the Teapot Dome Scandal, which became known while Harding
was alive, instead of "years later."
I take it Sam, that whereas now you present nothing to sup****t your
earlier contention that the Teapot Dome scandal "did not come out
until years after Harding had died," you have abandoned that claim?
For the sake of anyone foolish enough to take your book seriously, I
hope so.
BTW, I just found this on Wikipedia. I don't like to quote that
somewhat unreliable source, but what it says seems relevant:
"On April 14, 1922, the Wall Street Journal re****ted a secret
arrangement in which Fall had leased the petroleum reserves to a
private oil company without competitive bidding. Fall denied the
claims, and the leases to the oil companies seemed legal enough on the
surface. However, the following day, Wyoming Democratic Senator John
B. Kendrick introduced a resolution that would set in motion one of
the most significant investigations in the Senate's history."
I may be going out on a limb, but it seems to me that if something
is re****ted in the Wall Street Journal, it has ceased to be secret,
and may be regarded as "known." And last I checked, April 1922 was a
year and four months *_before_* Harding died, not "years later."
Keep that fierce, skillful research coming, Sammy boy!
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