Crédit Mobilier, one of the worst outrages in the history of Congress, affected national elections and gave “the Gilded Age” its name.
The Senate's inquiry into a Kennedy Administration defense contract is considered one of the longest and most extensive congressional investigations ever undertaken.
There was widespread misconduct in Harry Truman’s administration, but historians discount the president's responsibility.
Though no scandals touched Eisenhower personally, the media showed occasional interest in the number of gifts he received.
After the Department of Justice brought suit to nullify the Bell telephone patents, it was discovered the action could have made Attorney General Garland a multi-millionaire.
To many voters—some Republicans as well as most Democrats—Hayes's title to the presidency was a fraudulent one.
Ulysses S. Grant had to respond to more charges of misconduct that took the form of financial corruption than any other president.
Did the James Buchanan know his Secretary of War, a future Confederate general, sent 110,000 muskets to armories in the South in 1860?
Monroe was seen guilty of impropriety, not wrongdoing. But his reputation suffered.
Prior to Watergate, Harding's bribery ring was regarded as the greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American politics.
Lincoln's first secretary of war amassed a fortune at the start of the Civil War, forcing a congressional investigation.
And how history shows it’s actually good for us
It has been with us since Plymouth Colony. But that’s not why it’s an American institution.
You've always heard Harding was the worst President. Sex in the White House. Bribes on Capitol Hill. Was he really that bad?
The Beecher-Tilton Scandal
AN ANNIVERSARY LOOK BACK AT THE BIGGEST PRESIDENTIAL SCANDAL EVER, THROUGH THE CHANGES IT WROUGHT IN THE LANGUAGE
When the government manipulated and misused the robber barons
A nineteenth-century blueprint for the savings-and-loan scandal
An extraordinary new historical novel begins with the great political scandal of the 1970s, then visits the great political scandal of the 1820s
In a classic model of government corruption, the promoters placed shares of the company's stock “where it will do most good"—in the pockets of key Congressmen
Corruption must be fought in ways that preserve fairness and freedom. Otherwise the reformers can be as bad as the rascals.
Stempel’s winning technique was simplicity itself: He got all the questions in advance.
An old, familiar show is back in Washington. There’s a new cast, of course, but the script is pretty much the same as ever. Here’s the program.
A Scottish émigré became the most powerful man in the French government, and sold hundreds of thousands of shares in land holdings in the Mississippi Valley
Between its grim beginning on a Virginia plantation and its surprising end at a great New York estate, the career of Nancy Randolph involved many of the famous figures of the post-Revolutionary era. The lovers, the scorned ex-suitor, the cheated wife, all four were cousins in a great southern dynasty. This tale of hate and “honor” is recounted by a descendant of Edmund Randolph, the first Attorney General of the United States
The spinster thought she’d been proposed to; the young minister thought not. Their courtship and quarrel rocked devout New Haven