“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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44: Abraham Lincoln Becomes President of the Divided States of America
43: Honest Abe, the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, & John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry
42: Solomon Northup’s 12 Years a Slave
41: Kansas! (Bleeding Kansas, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, & Caning of Charles Sumner)
40: Elizabeth Cady Stanton, the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention & the Explosion of Social Reform
39: The California Gold Rush and the Compromise of 1850
38: The (Early) Life and Times of Frederick Douglass
37: La Amistad Slave Rebellion and the Rise of Abolitionism
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36: Mexican-American War (Part 4): Los Niños Héroes, St. Patrick’s Battalion, & the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
35: Mexican-American War (Part 3): Nuevo México and the Final Push from Vera Cruz
34: Mexican-American War (Part 2): The Pathfinder, the Bear Flag Revolt, y Los Californios
33: Mexican-American War (Part 1): From the Nueces River to the Rio Grande
32: Mormonism and the Mormon Trail
31: The California Trail: From the Donner Party to the Gold Rush
30: The Oregon Trail (“You Have Died of Dysentery”)
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29: The Bank War, Whigs, & Revolution in Texas
28: Ushering in the Age of Jackson
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