"Ohio Gang"

It wasn't always bad

Exorbitant Profiting of Charlie Forbes

"Harding's Presidency "

President Warren Harding

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Monday, 27 1920

Vol XCIII, No. 311

Warren G. Harding

It was the most damaging scandal of all.

In 1920 Warren G. Harding was elected President on a pledge of a " return to normalcy"

Senator to President

• Forbes was able to dupe the president

From Marion Ohio

• He was getting some kick backs from resold medical supplies and hospital contacts

After pressing two distinguished terms as state senator and one as lieutenant governor. Harding came out of a deadlock 1920 Republican National Convention and headed to Presidency.

• Harding knew of Forbes Misdeeds long before demanding his resignation.

• Harding was tried for criminal conspiracy but no evidence ever turned up

Harry M. Daugherty

Charlie Forbes on right Warren Harding on the left

Helps Harding in Presidency

Harding Friend Harry Daugherty had helped him get into to Presidency. In return Harding put him and his other pals in the "Ohio Gang"

"I don't know much about Americanism, but it's a damn good word with which to carry an election".

Harding did have some good in him.

• October 26, 1921 Warren Harding made a blunt speech

Teapot Dome Scandal

"America's present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration."

-Warren Harding

• He said that "Democracy would always be sham until African Americans received full equality

"I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they're the ones who keep me walking the floor at nights!"

Is President Harding Involved?

• Harding also proposed an anti-lynching bill

• Harding Had approved Falls request

• The oil reserves be transferred from the navy to the Department of the Interior

• Harding pushed congress into signing the Sheppard Towns Act which provided funding and federal oversights on state programs for infant mortality and health care for women and children

Anthony , Carl. "The Most Scandalous President ." . American Heritage , n.d. Web. 14 Mar 2014.

• Secretly leased to oil tycoons Edward Dorheny, And Henry Sinclair

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• In return then four hundred thousands dollars in bribes

http://www.americanheritage1.com/presidents/warren-g-harding.htm

• Harding was considered implicated in the scandal even tho the transfer wasn't judge an illegal act

http://www.americanheritage1.com/presidents/warren-g-harding.htm

http://kids.britannica.com/comptons/art-123252/A-1924-cartoon-shows-Washington-officials-fleeing-in-panic-down

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United States History . pg 666. Print.

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