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The most well-known and politically damaging of the scandals since Watergate, the Iran-Contra affair came to light in 1986 when Ronald Reagan conceded that the United States had sold weapons to the Islamic Republic of Iran as part of a largely unsuccessful effort to secure the release of six U.S. citizens being held hostage in Lebanon.
George W. Crawford (Whig-GA), Secretary of War in the Cabinet of President Zachary Taylor (Whig), was the center of the Galphin Affair land scandal with the help of Reverdy Johnson (Whig) Attorney General and William M. Meredith (Whig) Secretary of the Treasury, in which Crawford defrauded the federal government of $191,353.
Watergate scandal (6 C, 43 P, 2 F) Pages in category "Presidential scandals in the United States" The following 15 pages are in this category, out of 15 total.
A sexual relationship between President Bill Clinton and White House intern Monica Lewinsky between 1995 and 1997 made news in 1998 with the president famously saying, “I did not have sexual ...
The FBI has faced a handful of scandals under the Biden administration, ... Read On The Fox News App ... Joe Biden is the WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF AMERICA, A COMPLETE AND TOTAL DISASTER ...
More than a third of the men who've occupied the Oval Office have been either accused of sexual misconduct, alleged to have had an affair and more.
President Warren G. Harding (Republican) reportedly had affairs with Carrie Phillips and Nan Britton during the 1910s and early 1920s before he died in 1923. Britton claimed in her best-selling 1927 book, The President's Daughter, that Harding had fathered her daughter Elizabeth while he was a Senator. In August 2015, genetic tests confirmed ...
In 2018, then–Vice President Mike Pence welcomed its founder, Mary Owens, onstage at a World AIDS Day event. In 2021, a whistleblower told USAID that the charity was harboring a dark secret.