So Nessie you seem really informed on this stuff - remembered Teapot Dome and Harding - by the way it is alleged Harding go caught in a closet with a lady (using term loosely) and then he was murdered by his wife, poisoned - so always a Borgia or something around. Now I have a friend who is a poor millionaire with smaller oil company......I was researching artesian wells (and found my well on he State House Grounds, oh so secret) and called him and he said "oh we are always hitting that water when we drill a well" and I reminded him at the time, this artesian water was selling at a price higher than oil in some instances.....so these natural resouces belong to the people and why should be be gouged......maybe time to nationalize the utilities.......every citizen should receive minimum heat and electricity and water to live and pay for anything over allowed usage...supposed to be non profit I would think for under my house within the radius of our State Capitol - believe there is oil.....and natural gas galore.....wish I would have been geologist....also Meyer Lansky was scouting these fields in Ohio and in Kentucky in late 70 period - big scams going on then and now. So also at the time during the shortages and thing this was during Nixon period - he said he had so much gas, etc., but no pipe line.....he made good income, over 1 million a year at the time, enough to survivie.....had lots of enemies. But Ohio is where Harding lived....the Harding as some call it "nut house" is still going, and it is said in old days when one drove by that place, they put their foot on gas pedal for they say a lot of innocent people were sent there......victims of something maybe as simple as unwanted wife? So evil is as evil does.....this teapot dome thing....today the taking of our national parks, and this UN stuff is this a step to NWO domination of our natural resources, and then Clinton was to be given a job in investment firm....8 million a year - and that guy, isn't even a good lawyer. Theft of a nation; organized crime moving in and taking over - and oh my goodness I hope they did not clone Henry Kissinger. So under subject matter fund this and if puled up can get other topice; reproduced for your convenience......this scum in on the deal - Harding in a way was a victim - sometimes it is the people with whom you surround yourself tht gt rich and cause all the problems - but Clinton seems to have his hands in everything from polluted blood to banks to the whole bag of worms. Saba Series of "Historical Minutes" 1914-1945 April 15, 1922 Senate Investigates the "Teapot Dome" Scandal Ransacked offices, illegal wiretaps, disinformation campaigns, partisan conflict over the conduct of a Senate investigation. Sound familiar? On April 15, 1922, Wyoming Democratic Senator John Kendrick introduced a resolution that set in motion one of the most significant investigations in Senate history. On the previous day, the Wall Street Journal had reported an unprecedented secret arrangement in which the Secretary of the Interior, without competitive bidding, had leased the U.S. naval petroleum reserve at Wyoming's Teapot Dome to a private oil company. Wisconsin Republican Senator Robert La Follette arranged for the Senate Committee on Public Lands to investigate the matter. His suspicions deepened after someone ransacked his Russell Building office. The committee's leadership allowed the panel's most junior minority member, Montana Democrat Thomas Walsh, to lead what most expected to be a tedious and probably futile inquiry seeking answers to many questions, including "How did Interior Secretary Albert Fall get so rich so quickly?" Eventually, the investigation uncovered Secretary Fall's shady dealings and Senator Walsh became a national hero; Fall would end up as the first former cabinet officer to go to prison. This and a subsequent Senate inquiry triggered several court cases testing the extent of the Senate's investigative powers. One of those cases resulted in the landmark 1927 Supreme Court decision McGrain v. Daugherty that, for the first time, explicitly established Congress' right to compel testimony. Further Reading: Byrd, Robert C., The Senate, 1789-1989, Volume I (Washington, D.C.: GPO, 1988). Diner, Hasia, "Teapot Dome, 1924" in Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. and Roger Bruns, eds., Congress Investigates: A Documented History, 1792-1974 (New York: Chelsea House Publishers, 1975). Fall, Albert, The Memoirs of Albert B. Fall, edited by David Stratton (El Paso: Texas Western, 1966). Stratton, David H., "Two Western Senators and Teapot Dome: Thomas J. Walsh and Albert B. Fall," Pacific Northwest Quarterly 65 (April 1974), pp. 57-65. 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