Return to Normalcy?

After WWI America craved security and elected Warren G. Harding as President. What followed was the worst case of corruption in the Executive Office (until Watergate)- the TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL.





The Teapot Dome Scandal was a bribery incident that took place in the United States in 1922–23, during the administration ofPresident Warren G. Harding. Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome and two other locations to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. In 1922 and 1923, the leases became the subject of a sensational investigation by Senator Thomas J. Walsh. Fall was later convicted of accepting bribes from the oil companies.