“If you knew of a great scandal in our administration, would you for the good of the country and the party expose it publicly or would you bury it?”
This is the story of a brilliant man’s presidency and the greatest presidential scandal to precede Watergate. This is the story of Warren G. Harding and the Teapot Dome Scandal.
Growing up in Ohio, Warren–or little “Winnie,” as his mom calls him–shows his brilliance from day one. The smart, charismatic, and handsome boy grows up to become a newspaperman and falls in love with politics while reporting. He soon becomes a rising star, holding Ohio then national offices. Taking the reins of government after World War I, the Republican hopes to return the post-war, economically downtrodden, and fearful nation to “normalcy.”
But can he return the nation to “normalcy” while his friends in the “Ohio Gang” are making shady deals? And what does Warren know of these deals? Is he naive? Or is the several-times adulterous president, who copes with the stress of office through drink and gambling, in on it? That’s the question we’ll ask ourselves as we follow his less-than-a-full-term presidency.
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139: From Yeomen (F) to “Hello Girls:” American Women in World War I
138: The 15th New York/369th or The Harlem Hellfighters
137: The First Battle of the First American Army: St. Mihiel
136: The German Spring Offensive’s End, or The Second Battle of the Marne
135: Belleau Wood – A Cut Deeper with Captain Mac Caldwell
134: (Most of) The German Spring Offensive of 1918 & The Fight for Belleau Wood
133: Heading “Over There:” “Black Jack” Pershing & Creating WWI’s American Expeditionary Force
132: The US Enters WWI (RMS Lusitania, Black Tom Island, & The Zimmermann Telegram)
131: Epilogue on World War 1 before the US
130: Russia: From the Great War to Revolution with Deputy Provost Kat Brown
129: World War I Before the US (Military Tech, Trenches, Global Armies, Ypres, Verdun & the Somme)
128: The Causes of World War I (From the Congress of Vienna to Franz Ferdinand & the Marne)
127: Mr. Wilson Goes to Washington (Progressive Policies & Foreign Affairs in South America)
126: Christmas Special 6: Jacob Riis’ “Is There a Santa Claus?”
125: Epilogue: The Progressive Era
124: The “Bull Moose” Election of 1912
123: The Wright Brothers Fly at Kitty Hawk
122: Halloween Special II: H.P. Lovecraft – “The Outsider” & “Dagon”
121: Henry Ford: The Model T & Mass Production
120: From Atlanta to the NAACP, or Booker T. Washington v. W.E.B. Du Bois
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