Echoes of Scandal in Grant Era and Beyond
The piece traces Ulysses S. Grant's early presidency amid rising corruption that threatened the 1876 election. It links early scandals to later episodes including Teapot Dome Watergate and other cited cases, noting how presidential responses to wrongdoing shape history and future elections.
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Watergate and past scandals shaped by political frauds
The article traces a lineage of U S political corruption from Grant era Bribery and Babcock to Belknap and Hayes, then Teapot Dome under Harding, Truman era five percenters, Adams scandal, and Bobby Baker, noting Watergate as power preservation, not money. It contrasts self investigations with independent probes and notes public distrust in administrations.
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Fall
Teapot Dome
Harry F. Sinclair
Mammoth Oil Co
Elk Hills
Edward F. Doheny
Pan-American Co
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Liberty
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Senate
Thomas J. Walsh
Montana
Calvin Coolidge
Owen J. Roberts
Philadelphia
Atlee Pomerene
Ohio
Harry S Truman
Internal Revenue
Justice Department
T. Lamar Caudle
Truman
Matthew J. Connelly
Atty
J. Howard McGrath
Newbold Morris
New York
Richard M. Nixon
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Robert A. Taft
Department of Justice
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James P. McGranery
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Harry H. Vaughan
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Adlai E. Stevenson
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Lyndon B. Johnson
Robert G
Bobby) Baker
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Bobby Baker
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West discards king of hearts in crucial endgame
In a H. W. Kelsey hand played in England South leads three no trump and West must decide a discard after a sequence of clubs and diamonds. The right discard diamond deters endplay and confirms the lesson that a premature king discard can ruin a contract in a Gold Cup match.
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