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Teapot Dome Scandal
Title: Teapot Dome Scandal
Category: History
Details: Words: 283 | Pages: 1.2 (approximately 235 words/page)
Teapot Dome Scandal
Teapot Dome Scandal
The Teapot Dome was the name for the scandal during the presidency of Warren G. Harding. The scandal involved the secret leasing of naval oil reserve lands to private companies. A committee of the U.S. Senate first revealed it to the people in 1924 after its discovery. One cabinet member went to prison for his part in the affair and a number of Washington officials were accused of threatening to destroy confidence …showed first 75 words of 283 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 283 total…the petroleum reserve policy. Actually, private oil interests and many politicians had always been against each other, saying that the reserves were unnecessary. That American oil companies could provide for the needs of U.S. naval vessels.
One of these politicians, a longtime enemy of federal conservation programs, was Senator Albert B. Fall of New Mexico. In 1921, Fall became Harding’s secretary of the interior and quickly moved to open the reserves to private exploitation.
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