Warren+G.+Harding

=//Waren G. Harrding.//= = =

===//Harrding was the 29th president of the United States. He was a republican Senator of Ohio. As president Harrding wanted to lift the burden of taxes and regulations. To do this he offered lower taxes and less gonverment in business and more business in gonverment. He also sought higher tariffs on foreign goods to help American companiess. With the help of his secretary of the treasury, Andrew W. Mellon the Harrding Administration was able to lower taxes and balance the budget. While some of Harrdings cabinet choices were excellent a number were unqualified, and even corrupt. These men had benn Harding's friends back in Ohio, and were known as the Ohio Gang. They used their government positions to make money illegally. There actions helped to wreck the Harding Administration presidency. One of the worst scandals involved Secretary of Intior Albert Falling. It was called the Teapot Dome Scandal. Fall took bribes and made illegal deals with oil executives to drill on oil-rich govnment land in Teapot Dome, Wyoming. Rumors of churro potion in the Harding Administration began to be heard in 1923. Harding, who was politically and personally honest, was alarmed. He had once said, " I knew that this job would be to much for me". Tired and depressed Harding went on a speaking tour in the summer of 1923. it was then the he learned the full extent of corruption. He died suddenly while on the trip on August 2,1923. The American people mourned his death, but they were shocked when the scandals became public.//===