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[CountBoredom]

2/19 #2

Teapot Dome

Warren G. Harding’s presidency was struck by many scandals. The Teapot Dome scandal was the most significant. Harding transferred control of naval oil reserve lands over to the Department of the Interior in 1921 (although it was later reversed by the Supreme Court, who ruled the move illegal). Then Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall used his new power for personal gain, giving rights to the Teapot Dome Reserve in Wyoming to the Mammoth Oil company in return for bribes. When the scandal broke in 1924 he was found to have accumulated over $100,000 worth of bribes from the Mammoth Oil Company, among others. Although Harding had already died in office prior to the scandal breaking, it became a hot topic of controversy for years after his death and continues to plague his now infamous legacy. Before the Watergate scandal, Teapot Dome was regarded as the “greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American politics”.

 

[Ladybear]

2/19
#1. President skeleton

I think a lot of the skelatons got exposed already

Jackson was mostly upbraided for his vicious personality, including his participation in duels and orders to execute deserting soldiers during the War of 1812. Fingers were also pointed at Jackson’s wife, who had been married before and may not have ever officially divorced her ex-husband. The charges against Adams were even more ludicrous, including claims that he offered the “services” of an American chambermaid to Tsar Alexander I while serving as ambassador to Russia. Adams was disgusted by such smear tactics and refused to participate, but his gentility almost certainly worked against him, as Jackson won the election.




Thank you

 

[yasmin817]

2/19 #1

I knew it!

 

[Ladybear]

2/19
No 2
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln's legendary honesty got the better of him when he told Vice President Hannibal Hamlin that he looked like an elderly potato-bird that had been left out in the sun to wither. Hamlin never recovered, and renounced the vice presidency a short while later. In the same year, Lincoln's administration was scandalized to the point of near collapse when an editorial cartoon in a Philadelphia newspaper depicted him as "Abraham Stincoln."



President skeletons

 

[bellastarr]

2/19
1.
James Madison and Thomas Jefferson were once arrested together for taking a carriage ride in the countryside of Vermont on a Sunday, which violated the laws of that state.

 

[bellastarr]

2/19
2.
After President Bush Sr. vomited on the Japanese Prime Minister, a new word entered the Japanese language. Bushusuru means “to do the Bush thing,” or to publicly vomit

 

[yasmin817]

2/19 #2

I did not have relations with that .....

 

[Shawn Hoefer]

2/19
#1
Abraham Lincoln was also a store keeper in New Salem.

 

[super dave]

2/19

 

[mac63]

2/20
#1

Several individuals in Ronald Reagan's administration were implicated in the Iran-Contra Scandal. Basically, money that had been obtained through selling arms to Iran was given secretly to the revolutionary Contras in Nicaragua. Other than helping the Contras, the hope was that by selling the weapons to Iran, terrorists would be more willing to give up hostages. This scandal resulted in major Congressional hearings.

 

[mac63]

2/20
#2

Ulysses S. Grant's administration was rife with scandal. The first major scandal dealt with speculation in the gold market. Jay Gould and James Fisk attempted to corner the market. They drove up the price of gold but Grant found out and quickly had the Treasury add gold to the economy. This in turn resulted in the lowering of gold prices on Friday, September 24, 1869 which adversely affected all those who had bought gold.

 

[jj2]

2/20

1

While not implicating the president himself, James Garfield. had to deal with the Star Route Scandal in 1881 during his six months as president before his assassination. This scandal dealt with corruption in the postal service. Private organizations at the time were handling postal routes out west. They would give postal officials a low bid but when the officials would present these bids to Congress they would ask for higher payments. Obviously, they were profiting from this state of affairs. Garfield dealt with this head on even though many members of his own party were benefiting from the corruption.

 

[jj2]

2/20

2

Grover Cleveland had to deal head on with a scandal while he was running for president in 1884. It was revealed that he had previously had an affair with a widow named Maria C. Halpin who had given birth to a son. She claimed that Cleveland was the father and named him Oscar Folsom Cleveland. Cleveland agreed to pay child support and then paid to put the child in an orphanage when she was no longer fit to raise him. When this issue was brought forth in the campaign and even became a chant "Ma, Ma, where's my Pa? Gone to the White House, ha, ha, ha!," Cleveland was honest about the entire affair. This helped rather than hurt him, and he won the election.

 

[Sir2fyablyNutz]

2/20 #1

Before Andrew Jackson was president, he married a woman named Rachel Donelson in 1791. She had previously been married and believed that she was legally divorced. However, after marrying Jackson, Rachel found out this was not the case. Her first husband charged her with adultery. Jackson would have to wait until 1794 to legally marry Rachel. Even though this happened over thirty years previously, it was used against Jackson in the election of 1828. Jackson blamed Rachel's untimely death two months before he took office on these personal attacks against him and his wife.

 

[Sir2fyablyNutz]

2/20 #2

Ulysses S. Grant's administration was rife with scandal. The first major scandal dealt with speculation in the gold market. Jay Gould and James Fisk attempted to corner the market. They drove up the price of gold but Grant found out and quickly had the Treasury add gold to the economy. This in turn resulted in the lowering of gold prices on Friday, September 24, 1869 which adversely affected all those who had bought gold.

 

[RaceGun59]

02-20 #1
In May, 1868, the Senate came within a single vote of taking the unprecedented step of removing a president from office. Although the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson was ostensibly about a violation of the Tenure of Office Act, it was about much more than that. Also on trial in 1868 were Johnson's lenient policies towards Reconstruction and his vetoes of the Freedmen's Bureau Act and the Civil Rights Act. The trial was, above all else, a political trial.

 

[RaceGun59]

02-20 #2
Ronald Reagan

The scandal that marred Ronald Reagan's presidency was rooted in two separate military initiatives in which American involvement was prohibited by federal law.

The first was the ongoing war between Iran and Iraq. Officially, American foreign policy took no sides in the conflict; however, secretly, officials at the National Security Council (NSC) were selling weapons (at heavily inflated prices) to Iran. This was done in exchange for Iranian assistance in negotiating the release of American hostages held in Lebanon by pro-Iranian terrorists


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[Stosh]

2/20 #1

Bill Clinton Pioneered Extraordinary Rendition

“Extraordinary rendition” is when shady government operatives stuff a bag over your head and fly you off to some foreign country where they can legally torture you—and Bill Clinton was the guy who started it all. Clinton and Gore signed off on the first rendition back in the ’90s, despite being aware that it breached international law.

 

[bellastarr]

2/20
1.
Herbert Clark Hoover (1874-1964) gave his White House servants strict orders to hide from him whenever he passed by. Those who failed to do so were at risk of being fired.

 

[bellastarr]

2/20
2.
James Monroe (1758-1831) once chased his Secretary of State from the White House with a pair of fire tongs.