President Harding’s scandals included hush-money to mistresses, secret payments for an out-of-wedlock child and far-r. These ten political scandals underscore the complexity and challenges of governance in the United States. Each scandal shaped public perception, policy reforms, and the. What happened: During the French Revolution, President John Adams sent a delegation to Paris to work out some issues after the French started searching U.S. Ships that were en route to England. But the three French diplomats involved wouldn’t negotiate unless they were bribed. Officials refused and returned home. Amid questions over the perceived lack of progress, Adams made the meeting notes public, and the American people were outraged by the behavior of the French representatives — who showed up as X, Y and Z on redacted documents. This led to an undeclared, two-year naval war known as the Quasi War. A private citizen, Philadelphia doctor George Logan, took it upon himself to engage in private negotiations with French leaders, suggesting to them ways they could counter his government’s position. Nominated by: Heather Cox Richardson, professor of History at Boston College and author of To Make Men Free: A History of the Republican Party Why it was so scandalous: “In 1798,. From Monica Lewinsky to Watergate to the Iran-Contra, each crop of politicians has done its bit to play recklessly with the public’s trust and nosedive into the abyss of. Warren Harding and Carrie Phillips started a sexual affair in 1905 during a time when their respective spouses were undergoing medical procedures. Florence Harding was in. We compiled a list of almost every “worse than Watergate” comparison we could find, from Barry Goldwater’s description of Ted Kennedy’s Chappaquiddick scandal to the. The Teapot Dome Scandal , one of the biggest political scandals in U.S. History, involved the illegal leasing of federal oil reserves to private companies in exchange for. TIME asked seven historians to name the worst political scandal in American history. Here are their answers: The XYZ Affair (1797-1800). In the early 1920s , what was considered to be the largest political scandal in American history became public.
Little Warren: Is This the Biggest Political Scandal in History?
President Harding's scandals included hush-money to mistresses, secret payments for an out-of-wedlock child and far-r. These ten political scandals underscore t...
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