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Tempest Over Teapot Dome - The Story of Albert B. Fall (Hardcover, New)
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Tempest Over Teapot Dome - The Story of Albert B. Fall (Hardcover, New)
Series: The Oklahoma Western Biographies
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Albert B. Fall, interior secretary in the Harding administration,
was the first American cabinet member sent to prison for a crime
committed in office. In the Teapot Dome affair - the worst modern
political scandal until Watergate - Fall leased two naval oil
reserves, Wyoming's Teapot Dome and California's Elk Hills, to
Harry E. Sinclair and Edward L. Doheny and received payments of
$404,000 from the two millionaire oilmen. Tempest over Teapot Dome
describes Fall's role in Harding's administration, his tribulations
in court before going to prison in 1931, his freewheeling career in
New Mexico politics, his lawyering for underdog ranchers in a
bloody range war, his gut-fighting style as a U.S. senator who
opposed Woodrow Wilson's foreign policy, and his strident
activities as an expert on Latin American affairs, particularly
U.S.-Mexican relations. Fall's belief in the unrestricted and
immediate disposition of public lands was as typically western as
his black, broad-brimmed Stetson hat and his love of fine horses.
Stratton shows the money Fall took from Sinclair and Doheny played
only an incidental role in determining his actions - that the real
scandal lay in Fall's attempts to undo Progressive Era reforms -
and that the recent sale of the Elk Hills Reserve - the biggest
privatization of federal property in American history - makes
Fall's leasing policy seem surreally visionary.
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