Scandal

<p><span class="deck"> Foul was fair, and fair foul, when eight players of the championship White Sox conspired with gamblers to throw the 1919 World Series</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">The spinster thought she’d been proposed to; the young minister thought not. Their courtship and quarrel rocked devout New Haven</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> Between its grim beginning on a Virginia plantation and its surprising end at a great New York estate, the career of Nancy Randolph involved many of the famous figures of the post-Revolutionary era. The lovers, the scorned ex-suitor, the cheated wife, all four were cousins in a great southern dynasty. This tale of hate and “honor” is recounted by a descendant of Edmund Randolph, the first Attorney General of the United States</span> </p>

<p>A Scottish émigré became the most powerful man in the French government, and sold hundreds of thousands of shares in land holdings in the Mississippi Valley</p>

<p><span class="deck"> An old, familiar show is back in Washington. There’s a new cast, of course, but the script is pretty much the same as ever. Here’s the program.</span> </p>

<p>Stempel’s winning technique was simplicity itself: He got all the questions in advance.</p>

<p>Corruption must be fought in ways that preserve fairness and freedom. Otherwise, the reformers can be as bad as the rascals.</p>

<p>In a classic model of government corruption, the promoters placed shares of the company's stock “where it will do most good"—in the pockets of key Congressmen</p>
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<p><span class="deck">An extraordinary new historical novel begins with the great political scandal of the 1970s, then visits the great political scandal of the 1820s.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">A 19th-century blueprint for the savings-and-loan scandal</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">When the government manipulated and misused the robber barons</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">AN ANNIVERSARY LOOK BACK AT THE BIGGEST PRESIDENTIAL SCANDAL EVER, THROUGH THE CHANGES IT WROUGHT IN THE LANGUAGE</span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> The Beecher-Tilton Scandal</span> </p>

<p>You've always heard that Harding was the worst president. Sex in the White House. Bribes on Capitol Hill. Was he really that bad?</p>

<p><span class="deck">It has been with us since Plymouth Colony. But that’s not why it’s an American institution.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">And how history shows it’s actually good for us</span></p>

<p>Lincoln's first Secretary of War amassed a fortune at the start of the Civil War, forcing a congressional investigation. </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>President Monroe was considered guilty of impropriety, not wrongdoing. But his reputation suffered.</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>Ulysses S. Grant had to respond to more charges of financial misconduct than any other president.</p>

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

<p>After the Department of Justice brought suit to nullify the Bell telephone patents, it was discovered the action could have made Attorney General Garland a multi-millionaire.</p>

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

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

<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>Crédit Mobilier, one of the worst outrages in the history of Congress, affected national elections and gave “the Gilded Age” its name.</p>

<p>Why have thousands of U.S. banks failed over the years? The answers are in our history and politics.</p>