Smoke-filled rooms & Teapot Dome [audio 51min]

Award-winning journalist Diane Rehm probes the story behind one of the most infamous incidents in American political history, and its lessons for Washington today, with Laton McCartney, author of Teapot Dome Scandal: How Big Oil Bought the Harding White House and Tried to Steal the Country. McCartney is a business, finance and political journalist, and author of Friends in High Places and Across the Great Divide.