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Politics : Stockman Scott's Political Debate Porch
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To: Sidney Reilly who wrote (30288)10/19/2003 12:54:59 PM
From: Karen Lawrence  Read Replies (2) of 89467
 
Warren G. Harding - Republican - is no longer the worst president of this country. Bush leaves him in the dust.

History remembers Harding as weak and ineffectual. He is consistently listed among the worst U.S. presidents if not as the worst one. Harding knew his administration was a leaky boat at the time of his death two years into his first term. A serious economic depression for the farming industry (unemployment under Bush, 3 million manufacturing jobs lost)and murmurs of graft in his administration (Cheney and Ken Lay) prompted Harding to begin a public relations tour. Returning to the western United States after appearances in Alaska and Canada, Harding received a lengthy message, in code, reportedly regarding the looming Tea Pot Dome scandal. Harding's Secretary of the Interior Albert B. Fall had leased three naval oil reserves including Tea Pot Dome in Wyoming to private oil companies without bids in exchange for a bribe.(Halliburton and Iraqi oil) A Senate investigation would bring the entire affair to light. Famously, the message made Harding physically sick, though it is also reported that Harding's health became poorer as the tour progressed and still other records say that Harding became ill with ptomaine food poisoning after sharing a meal with his entire entourage. No one else in his party also got sick. He also suffered from high blood pressure and had other health problems.

In the wake of Teapot Dome, Secretary Fall resigned and joined the oil business with Harry F. Sinclair, one of the illegal lessors. Fall was later convicted of accepting a bribe. He was the first Cabinet member to go to jail for crimes committed while in office.
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