“If you knew of a great scandal in our administration, would you for the good of the country and the party expose it publicly or would you bury it?”
This is the story of a brilliant man’s presidency and the greatest presidential scandal to precede Watergate. This is the story of Warren G. Harding and the Teapot Dome Scandal.
Growing up in Ohio, Warren–or little “Winnie,” as his mom calls him–shows his brilliance from day one. The smart, charismatic, and handsome boy grows up to become a newspaperman and falls in love with politics while reporting. He soon becomes a rising star, holding Ohio then national offices. Taking the reins of government after World War I, the Republican hopes to return the post-war, economically downtrodden, and fearful nation to “normalcy.”
But can he return the nation to “normalcy” while his friends in the “Ohio Gang” are making shady deals? And what does Warren know of these deals? Is he naive? Or is the several-times adulterous president, who copes with the stress of office through drink and gambling, in on it? That’s the question we’ll ask ourselves as we follow his less-than-a-full-term presidency.
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60: Gettysburg
59: Stone’s River, Suspending Habeas Corpus, Vicksburg, & Stonewall’s Death at Chancellorsville
58: Conscription & Riots (“A Rich Man’s War, But a Poor Man’s Fight”)
57: Recap of The Civil War's First Half (1861-63)
56: The Battle of Fredericksburg and the First Campaign of Vicksburg
55: The Road to The Emancipation Proclamation
54: The Best Opening Scenes in HTDS History
53: A Civil War Christmas with Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
52: From Second Bull Run, or Second Manassas to Antietam, or Sharpsburg
51: A Change in Command: Seven Days Battles to the Battle of Cedar Mountain
50: Mississippi Valley 1862: The Battles of New Orleans, Corinth, Memphis, and Vicksburg
49: From Little Mac McClellan to Stonewall Jackson: The Peninsula and Shenandoah Valley Campaigns
48: The Battle of Shiloh: “Now boys, pitch in!”
47: Bull Run, Trent Affair, the Merrimack, & Fort Donelson: The Early Days of the Civil War
46: The Civil War Begins: Fort Sumter, Secession, & Raising Armies
45: Volume IV Epilogue
44: Abraham Lincoln Becomes President of the Divided States of America
43: Honest Abe, the Lincoln-Douglas Debates, & John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry
42: Solomon Northup’s 12 Years a Slave
41: Kansas! (Bleeding Kansas, the Kansas-Nebraska Act, & Caning of Charles Sumner)
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