"The Teapot Dome Scandal involved a plot of federal land in Wyoming that derives its unusual name from the fact that, if viewed from a certain angle, it appears to be shaped like a scandal. The government had placed a large amount of oil under this land for safekeeping, but in 1921 it was stolen. The mystery was solved later that same evening when an alert customs inspector noticed former Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall attempting to board an oceanliner with a suitcase containing 3.256 trillion barrels of petroleum products, which he claimed had been a "gift" from a "friend." At this point, President Harding, showing the kind of class that Richard Nixon can only dream about, died."
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Presidents of the United StatesRepublican Party (United States) politiciansUnited States presidential candidates, 1920Politicians from OhioUnited States presidential candidates, 1916
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Dave Barry, Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States (1989), p. 104-105
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