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Let's talk about more bad US presidents! This week, we talked about our 29th, Warren G. Harding. A Republican who was subtly pushed into running by the Oil industry. The goal is to send Albert Fall to the Secretary of the Interior job & sell some US Navel Reserve Oil to the only bidders.

Fall got super suspiciously rich. Harding probably would have been in trouble for turning a blind eye but he died before the trial, leaving "Keep Calm with Coolidge" to clean things up. 

Sources:

The Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country - https://www.amazon.com/Teapot-Dome-Scandal-Harding-Country/dp/0812973372 

https://coolidgefoundation.org/presidency/coolidge-chronology-15/

https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/silent-cal-coolidge

https://www.senate.gov/artandhistory/senate-stories/one-hundred-years-since-teapot-dome.htm

https://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties/teapot-dome-scandal

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