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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.
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.
The second-term curse is the perceived tendency of second terms of U.S. presidents to be less successful than their first terms. [1] [2] According to the curse, the second terms of U.S. presidents have usually been plagued by a major scandal, policy inertia, some sort of catastrophe, or other problems.
This 1920s scandal had it all: “ornery oil tycoons, poker-playing politicians, illegal liquor sales, a murder-suicide, a womanizing president and a bagful for bribery cash delivered on the sly ...
The worst and most famous scandal to hit the Grant administration was the Whiskey Ring of 1875, exposed by Treasury Secretary Benjamin H. Bristow and journalist Myron Colony. Whiskey distillers had been evading taxes in the Midwest since the Lincoln Administration. [38]
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 ...
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.