Presidential Misdeeds

<p>The Senate's inquiry into a Kennedy Administration defense contract is considered one of the longest and most extensive congressional investigations ever undertaken.</p>

<p>There was widespread misconduct in Harry Truman’s administration, but historians discount the president's responsibility. </p>

<p>Though no scandals touched Eisenhower personally, the media showed occasional interest in the number of gifts he received.</p>

<p>To many voters—some Republicans, as well as most Democrats—Hayes' title to the presidency was a fraudulent one.</p>

<p>Ulysses S. Grant had to respond to more charges of financial misconduct than any other president.</p>

<p>Did James Buchanan know that his Secretary of War, a future Confederate general, sent 110,000 muskets to armories in the South in 1860?</p>

<p>President Monroe was considered guilty of impropriety, not wrongdoing. But his reputation suffered.</p>

<p>Prior to Watergate, Harding's bribery ring was regarded as the greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American politics.</p>

<p>Fierce debate among early political factions led to many allegations of misdeeds and abuse of power in Washington's administration, but there was no serious misconduct.</p>