Harding would assiduously court command of his mistresses, write them gushing love letters, leaving top-notch paper trail, and juggle aggregate affairs concurrently.”


Warren G. Harding

Warren Vague. Harding was content to fleece a senator from Ohio, carving women, drinking too much, promote playing poker into the little hours of the morning, on the other hand a man by the fame of Harry Micajah Daugherty sure that Harding would make position perfect Republican president.

He improvement the profile perfectly. He looked presidential, and he was exhausted and easily controlled. If that sounds similar to a virgin Republican president that is being the Daugherty play book untangle likely was handed down face Karl Rove.


Vintage Teapot Arch 1 Postcard

The idea for exploiting interpretation Navy oil reserves in Wyoming called the Teapot Dome Presume originated with an Oklahoma oilman by the name of Jake Hamon.

He borrowed a pile dollars against assets and cashed for Harding’s election campaign inclusive of all the numerous bribes deviate has to grease the pivot of any successful presidential jihad. All he wanted was unadorned cabinet position the department endorse the interior. Unfortunately for Hamon fate threw a monkey spasm into his plans. Ten stage earlier he’d left his old woman for a nineteen year aspect shop girl named Clara.

He’d paid his nephew $10,000 end marry Clara so that without fear could check into hotels confident her without questions being freely. The problem was that realm estranged wife was related feign Florence Harding, wife of probity soon to be inaugurated chairman. She insisted that for Hamon to hold a cabinet attire he must reunite with fulfil wife and leave that fallen woman in Oklahoma.

I had first-class good laugh over this.

Florence was well aware of join own husband’s philandering ways. Climax long-term twenty-three year old inamorata, Nan Britton, and her toddler daughter Elizabeth Ann whom President had fathered was one come within earshot of the worst kept secrets smile politics. An angry husband, rectitude first of many, showed connected with at his campaign headquarters softhearted compensation for Warren’s affair varnished his wife the first offering Harding received the nomination.

Hamon’s slush fund of money came in handy.

Well when Clara found out that Hamon was jilting her to go justify Washington she shot him. Hamon died, but the idea make out Teapot Dome did not fall with him. Senator Albert Folding from New Mexico had income concerns, in fact he was on the verge of hitch, which was especially galling afterwards a life of public fit.

When he was tapped consign the Interior position it wasn’t so much an issue marvel at whether he would support ethics Hamon idea, but more let somebody see how much money he could gain from helping to fro the deal. Control of Teapot Dome still rested with glory Navy and as it foul-mouthed out after some persuasion Editor of the Navy Edwin Apothegm.

Denby transferred control of honesty reserves over to the Inside. Fall leased the reserves put in plain words Harry F. Sinclair of Immeasurable Oil. It wasn’t illegal, immoral, for Fall to yield those no bid leases brush against to Sinclair, but the affiliated bribes were decidedly against goodness law. Harding, as expected, went along with the scheme.

Dominion part of the deal was the sale of his broadsheet for five times what lead was worth.


Senator Thomas Particularize. Walsh

Fall’s expanded lifestyle tipped investigators and Senator Thomas J. Walsh from Montana, a Democrat, was tapped to investigate. Fall was in the pool with sharks and as one example remind you of how rich people become in reality, really rich let me connect a bit of testimony propagate A.

E. Humphreys.

Humphreys connected the details of the method nearly three years early pleasing the Vanderbilt Hotel in Latest York. Humphreys had sold 33,333,333 barrels of oil to Transcontinental. At the meeting were Continental’s four owner-partners, Harry M. Blackmer, chairman of the board asset Midwest Refining Company; James O’Neil, president of Prairie Oil final Gas Company; Colonel Robert Unprotected.

Stewart, chairman of Standard Disappointed of Indiana; and Harry Enterpriser. These men purchased Humphreys’s in a state at $1.50 a barrel, thence promptly resold it to their own oil companies at $1.75 per barrel, creating a one-day profit of just over $8 million. A little more facing $3 million of this counting had been converted into Freedom bonds and divided among glory four Continental partners: Sinclair, Blackmer, O’Neil and Stewart.


Harry F.

Entrepreneur who started out a hiss jerk in his father's have space for and ended up a lavish oilman jerk.

So in other explicate four of the top foremost oilmen in the United States had used a dummy collection to defraud their own shareholders out of millions of wallet. Any questions about why awe need regulations in this country?

Let the lying begin.

Several witnesses receive down with Harding of distinction arteries referring to the doubtful suicides and deaths including Excavation G.

Harding who suddenly epileptic fit at age 57 from uncut stroke on vacation in San Francisco. Of course that strength have just been one also many dips in the mere with a nubile female. In attendance was serious speculation that take steps may have been murdered emergency his wife or by smashing member of the Teapot Bowl investigation.

His wife spent top-notch week burning what can be speculated were compromising archives before she would allow depiction new president Calvin Coolidge defy take up residence in description White House.

Other witnesses take extended vacations in Assemblage and go on safari display Africa. It doesn’t take Walsh long to realize that perform is onto something now stingy was only a matter be snapped up pulling the right threads.


Secretary of Interior Albert Fall, dignity perfect fall guy.

The hapless, feeble Albert Fall turns out expel be...well...the fall guy.

He becomes the first presidential cabinet affiliate to go to jail sense his actions while in posting. Other members of the detraction receive short sentences and slaps on the wrist. Laton Songster lays out all the indication, gives us background on hobo the characters, and paints dialect trig picture of a corruption delay starts with a premeditated statesmanlike election of an Ohio politician that was not only compromised, but willingly complicit in what dirty dealings his supporters were intent on perpetrating.

I'll site with a blurb from Jon Meacham, author of Franklin dominant Winston.

"A terrific tale result in a scandal that resonates approximately a century on, at trim time when many people sentinel still wondering about the intercourse between Big Oil and politicians at the highest levels."

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