The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country.The Teapot Dome Scandal Teapot Dome scandal Secret leasing of U.S. government land to private interests. In 1922 oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyo., and Elk Hills, Calif., were improperly leased to private oil companies by Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall, who accepted cash gifts and : How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country By Laton McCartney Random House, 351 pages, $27 [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Laton McCartney writes a novel-like history of the scandal that forever linked Warren G. Harding
Warren Gamaliel Harding (November 2 1865 – August 2 1923) was an American politician and the 29th President of the United States, from 1921 with the fraudulent schemes of Big Oil. The Teapot Dome Scandal describes how oilmen received oil reserves Oil reserves refer to portions of oil in place that are claimed to be recoverable under economic constraints. Oil in the ground is not a "reserve" unless it is claimed to be economically recoverable, since as the oil is extracted, the cost of recovery increases incrementally in Wyoming set aside for the U.S. Navy in exchange for a series of illegal dealings within the Harding administration. Laton follows all the oilmen and politicians caught up in the scandal, including Harding, who was never directly implicated im·pli·cate tr.v. im·pli·cat·ed, im·pli·cat·ing, im·pli·cates 1. To involve or connect intimately or incriminatingly: evidence that implicates others in the plot. 2. . |
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