On Apr 4, 6:10=A0pm, samsloan <samhsl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On Apr 4, 1:58 pm, ttk5...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On Apr 4, 1:49 pm, samsloan <samhsl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > I just did a little bit of research into the Teapot Dome Scandal.
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> > =A0 What? *First* you write a book about Harding, and then *_LATER_*
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> > finally do any research on the Teapot Dome Scandal?? Um, isn't this
> > just a tad backwards, Sam?
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> > > 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.
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> > =A0 In other words, Fall took a bribe. This is quite illegal for a
> > Secretary of the Interior. He went to prison for it.
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> > > The oil fields are still producing to this day.
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> > =A0 I guess if Fall hadn't taken the bribe, they would have gone dry
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> > now? Sam pretty much always misses the point, doesn't he?
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> > > 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.
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> > =A0 What Harding knew, or should have known, was Fall's character
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> > 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.
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> 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.
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> http://www.anusha.com/harding.htm
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> Can you think of a more distinguished group than that?
He also appointed Albert Fall as Secretary of the Interior, Harry
Daugherty as Attorney General, and Will Hays as Postmaster General.
It's hard to think of a less 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 mainly stood around and looked handsome. He was not a good
leader.
> He took responsibility and held governmental officials
> accountable.
He was the dupe and puppet of crooks. I have sympathy for him; he is
definitely a tragic figure in American history. But sympathy doesn't
make him a good president.
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