Listen Now: American Scandal: Teapot Dome
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🗓️ 24 June 2024
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Summary
Every scandal begins with a lie. But the truth will come out. And then comes the fallout and the outrage.
Scandals have shaped America since its founding. From business and politics to sports and society, we look on aghast as corruption, deceit and ambition bring down heroes and celebrities, politicians and moguls. And when the dust finally settles, we're left to wonder: how did this happen? Where did they trip up, and who is to blame? From the creators of American History Tellers, Business Wars and Tides of History comes American Scandal, where we take you deep into the heart of America's dark side to look at what drives someone to break the rules and what happens when they're caught. Hosted by Lindsay Graham.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everyone, it's me, Andrea Chalupa. There's a really great podcast that I want to tell you about called |
| 0:05.3 | American Scandal. They cover the biggest controversies in the U.S., events that still shape our country today. |
| 0:13.9 | Sometimes they cover public figures like Monica Lewinsky or Edward Snowden. Sometimes they cover huge |
| 0:19.7 | fraud stories like Enron or Bernie |
| 0:22.1 | Madoff's Ponzi scheme. But this latest season of American scandal, they are covering perhaps |
| 0:28.3 | the greatest corruption scheme in American history as they bring to life the bribes, players, |
| 0:34.9 | and underhanded deals related to the teapot dome scandal, resulting |
| 0:40.1 | in the first presidential cabinet member going to prison. I like the sound of that. I'm about to |
| 0:45.9 | play a clip from American Scandal. Follow American Scandal on the Wondery app or wherever you get your |
| 0:51.8 | podcasts. Go deeper and get more to the story with Wondery's |
| 0:55.7 | top history podcasts, including American History Tellers, Legacy, and even the Royals. |
| 1:18.6 | It's 2 a.m. on June 12, 1920, the final day of the Republican National Convention in Chicago, Illinois. |
| 1:24.2 | Harry Doherty is roaming the halls of the Congress Hotel, searching for Senator Warren G. Harding. |
| 1:29.1 | Just a few minutes ago, the GOP's top power brokers decided that Harding would be the party's next presidential nominee. And as his campaign manager, Doherty has been |
| 1:34.2 | assigned to find him and bring him into the convention hall so they can make it official. |
| 1:38.5 | It's been a long day, following a long week, and Doherty is exhausted. But as he weaves his |
| 1:43.7 | way around the hotel's smoky parlors and endless corridors, Doherty is exhausted. But as he weaves his way around the hotel's smoky parlors |
| 1:45.8 | and endless corridors, Doherty can't help but grin. Five days ago, when the convention first |
| 1:52.4 | began, Harding was a dark horse contender, with 40-to-one odds stacked against him. But Doherty was certain |
| 1:58.8 | that Harding would emerge from the convention as the Republican nominee, and he told the press as much. But Doherty was certain that Harding would emerge from the convention as |
| 2:00.9 | the Republican nominee, and he told the press as much. What Doherty didn't tell them was that |
| 2:06.0 | he'd brokered a secret deal to make sure of it. Months before the convention began, |
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