Teapot Dome

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• SOURCE: MSNBC
  7/25/2021
  

  The President Who Beats Donald Trump at Corruption

  by Kevin M. Kruse

  "To find the real counterpart to Trump’s gang of money-grubbing grifters, we need to look back a century to the crime-riddled administration of Warren G. Harding."

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• SOURCE: Bill Moyers
  7/22/2020
  

  Historic Levels, but Not the Good Kind

  by Heather Cox Richardson

  Warren G. Harding created an atmosphere in which the point of government was not to help ordinary Americans, but to see how much leaders could get out of it.

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• SOURCE: Washigton Post
  5/7/19
  

  A century-old feud between millionaires is now key to getting Trump’s tax returns

  The law at issue in the strife over Trump’s taxes arose from a bitter dispute between Mellon and Sen. James Couzens (R-Mich.), a deep-pocketed adversary on Capitol Hill, over the lawmaker’s investigation of the IRS.

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• SOURCE: Bloomberg
  4/20/19
  

  Trump’s Taxes Are Fair Game. Just Ask Warren Harding.

  by Stephen Mihm

  The Teapot Dome corruption scandal resulted in a 1924 law that gives the House Ways and Means Committee authority to demand returns.

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• SOURCE: Slate
  4/3/19
  

  House Committee Uses Century-Old Provision in the Tax Code to Demand Trump’s Taxes From IRS

  The provision dates in some form to the Teapot Dome scandal of Warren G. Harding’s administration.