From Teapot Dome To Bobby Baker To Watergate
A concise panorama of executive branch corruption across U S history links Teapot Dome to Watergate. It traces scandals from Grant through Harding Truman Eisenhower Johnson and Fortas, naming Fall Daugherty Vaughan Mink Coat Connelly Adams Baker and Wolfson with verdicts and consequences.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Teapot Dome
Bobby Baker
Watergate
Linda Charlton
New York Times
Washington
Interior
Albert B. Fall
Wyo
H. F. Sinclair
Mammoth Oil Company
Fall
Senate
Montana
Sen
Thomas J. Walsh
Percy To Introduce Resolution Setting Up Special Prosecutor
Congress pushes for an independent prosecutor to handle Watergate beyond the White House. Senators Percy Javits Case and others back outside authority. Nixon pledges new ethics rules and Richardson would nominate if needed. Some leaders doubt the sufficiency of the administration’s response.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Percy
Lawrence L.knutson
Washington
Congress
Nixon
Executive Branch
the Nation
Elliot —L. Richardson
Richardson
Edmund S. Muskie
Maine
Senate
Charles H. Percy
R-N
Jacob K. Javits
R-N.y
Chisholm
D-N.y
Mike Mansfield
Montana
Mansfield
Robert Dole
George Bush
Resignations End An Era In Nixon White House
Washington notes the 1973 resignations of H. R. Haldeman and John Ehrlichman mark a shift in Nixon's presidency. The White House faces a reborn openness debate while insiders hope to decentralize power and restore access to Congress, the press, and bureaucrats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Washington
H. R. Haldeman
John D. Ehrlichman
Nixon
White House
Capitol Hill
Congress
Howse
Eman
Ehrlichman
Hans
Fritz
Daniel P. Moynihan
John Ehrlichman
Achtung
D. P. Mi
Robert F. Ellsworth
New York
Flanigan
Haldeman
Nixon White House
Arthur F. Burns
Federal Reserve Board
Moynihan
Harvard
Walter J. Hickel
Interior Secretary
Ash
Nixon says faith misplaced over Watergate probe
The excerpt contrasts Nixon’s Aug 29 1972 assurance of no White House involvement with his Monday remark admitting faith in assurances was misplaced. He explains why investigations, initially trusted, led to accepting accountability for new inquiries and pledges fair justice regardless of personnel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Nixon
FBI
Justice Department
John W. Dean III
Administration
Dean
Atty
Richard Kleindienst
L. Patrick Gray
Department of Justice
White House
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Martin van Buren
Ulysses S. Grant
Grant
Credit Mobilier
Union Pacific Railway
Warren G. Harding
Fail
Elk Hills
Harry M. Daugherty
Calvin Coolidge
Daugherty
Harding
Truman
Harry H. Vaughan
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
R.F.C
Donald Dawson
Internal Revenue Service
Matthew H. Connelly
Eisenhower
Sherman Adams
Boston
Bernard Goldfine
Federal Trade Commission
Adams
Lyndon B. Johnson
Baker
Johnson
Supreme Court of
Abe Fortas
Fortas
Wolfson Family Foundation
Louis E. Wolfson
Edward J. Gurney
R-Fla
Gurney
William Saxbe
Ohio
John M. Bailey
Ath
Connecticut
St. Marys, Mo
Mississippi River
Oval Office
Henry A
Tainé
Jeb
S. “Magruder
Ronald L. Ziegler
Leonard Garment
Peter M Flanigan
Kissinger
California
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