Teapot Dome Scandal
February 20, 2012 by staff
Teapot Dome Scandal, The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States in 1922-23, during the administration of President Warren G. Harding. Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome and two other locations to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. In 1922 and 1923, the leases became the subject of a sensational investigation by Senator Thomas J. Walsh. Fall was later convicted of accepting bribes from the oil companies.
Before the Watergate scandal, Teapot Dome was regarded as the “greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American history”. The scandal also was a key factor in posthumously further destroying the public reputation of the Harding administration, which was already unpopular due to its poor handling of the Great Railroad Strike of 1922 and the President’s veto of the Bonus Bill in 1922.
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