Research Catalog

Title

Presidential scandals / Jeffrey D. Schultz.

Author

Schultz, Jeffrey D.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, c2000.

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Description

xix, 480 p. : ill., ports.; 27 cm.

Subjects

• USA > President
• Reference works
• History
• United States > Politics and government
• Political corruption > United States > History
• Presidents > United States > History

Genre/Form

• History
• Reference works.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

George Washington 1 -- Shenandoah Valley Land Theft 2 -- Extramarital Affairs and Illegitimate Children 3 -- Padded Expense Account 4 -- Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of the Treasury 5 -- Jay Treaty 9 -- John Adams 13 -- The XYZ Affair 15 -- Alien and Sedition Acts 17 -- Cabinet Insubordination 18 -- Federalist Criticism of Adams 19 -- Thomas Jefferson 21 -- Sexual Liaisons and Illegitimate Children 22 -- Aaron Burr, Vice President 25 -- James Wilkinson, Governor of Louisiana Territory 28 -- The Two Million Act 29 -- Post Office Investigations 30 -- Miranda Expedition 31 -- Josiah Quincy's Attempt to Impeach Jefferson 32 -- New Orleans Batture Case 32 -- James Madison 36 -- James Wilkinson 38 -- James Monroe 40 -- Furniture Fund 41 -- Yellowstone Expedition 44 -- Elijah Mix Contract 46 -- The A.B. Plot 47 -- John Quincy Adams 51 -- Election of 1824 53 -- Election of 1828 54 -- Andrew Jackson 57 -- Rachel Jackson 58 -- Peggy Eaton 59 -- Spoils System 61 -- Senate Censure of Jackson 62 -- The Trail of Tears 64 -- William T. Barry, Postmaster General 66 -- Martin Van Buren 68 -- Illegitimate Son of Aaron Burr 69 -- Richard Johnson, Vice President 70 -- Samuel Swartwout and Jesse D. Hoyt 71 -- Extravagant Expenses 72 -- William Henry Harrison 73 -- John Tyler 75 -- The Poindexter Commission 77 -- Impeachable Offenses Report 77 -- Webster-Ashburton Treaty 80 -- James K. Polk 83 -- The Roorback Forgery 84 -- James Buchanan, Secretary of State 85 -- Washington Globe 85 -- Zachary Taylor 87 -- The Galphin Claim 88 -- Thomas Ewing, Secretary of Interior 90 -- Millard Fillmore 92 -- Thomas Corwin, Secretary of Treasury 93 -- Franklin Pierce 96 -- Drunkenness 97 -- Andrew Reeder, Governor of Kansas 98 -- James Buchanan 101 -- Anne Caroline Coleman 102 -- Homosexuality 103 -- Elections of 1856 and 1858 104 -- Public Printing Scandals 105 -- The Covode Committee 105 -- John B. Floyd, Secretary of War 108 -- Abraham Lincoln 110 -- Mary Todd Lincoln 112 -- John C. Fremont, Commander of the Western Department 114 -- Simon Cameron, Secretary of War 115 -- Salmon Chase, Secretary of the Treasury 117 -- Suspension of Habeas Corpus 118 -- Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy 120 -- Andrew Johnson 122 -- Drunkenness 124 -- Impeachment 125 -- Ulysses S. Grant 135 -- Black Friday: The Gold Panic of 1869 136 -- George M. Robeson, Secretary of the Navy 138 -- William W. Belknap, Secretary of War 139 -- Santo Domingo Annexation 140 -- The Administration of Washington, D.C. 142 -- Custom Houses Investigations 145 -- Credit Mobilier 146 -- Robert C. Schenck, Ambassador to Great Britain 148 -- Sanborn Contract 148 -- Whiskey Ring 149 -- Columbus Delano, Secretary of the Interior 152 -- Drunkenness 153 -- Rutherford B. Hayes 155 -- The Election of 1876 156 -- Custom House Investigations 159 -- Executive Order Banning Political Activity 160 -- Richard W. Thompson, Secretary of the Navy 162 -- Ponca Indian Removal 163 -- The Star Route Affair 164 -- James Garfield 167 -- Extramarital Affairs 169 -- Scandals as a Member of Congress 170 -- The Star Route Affair 172 -- Chester A. Arthur 174 -- Corruption at the New York Custom House 175 -- The Star Route Frauds 175 -- Political Assessments in the Elections of 1882 177 -- William W. Dudley, Commissioner of the Pensions Office 178 -- Grover Cleveland 179 -- Father of an Illegitimate Child 180 -- Augustus H. Garland, Attorney General 182 -- William F. Vilas, Secretary of the Interior 183 -- James Van Alen, Ambassador to Italy 184 -- John G. Carlisle, Secretary of the Treasury 185 -- Benjamin Harrison 188 -- William Dudley, Treasurer of the Republican National Committee 190 -- James R. Tanner and the Pension Bureau 192 -- Green B. Raum and the Pension Bureau 195 -- The Cape May Cottage Controversy 197 -- William Mckinley 200 -- Russell A. Alger, Secretary of War 201 -- The Cuban Post Office Investigation 204 -- Theodore Roosevelt 206 -- Indian, Post Office, and Oregon Land Scandals 208 -- The Panama Canal Purchase 211 -- Corporate Donations in the 1904 Election 214 -- U.S. Steel's Merger with Tennessee Coal and Iron 217 -- Abuse of the Secret Service 219 -- William Howard Taft 223 -- Richard Ballinger, Secretary of the Interior 224 -- Harvey Wiley, Chief Chemist of the FDA 227 -- Woodrow Wilson 231 -- Extramarital Affair 232 -- Diggs-Caminetti Affair 233 -- William Jennings Bryan, Secretary of State 235 -- James M. Sullivan, Ambassador to the Dominican Republic 237 -- Henry M. Pindell, Ambassador to Russia 239 -- Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior 240 -- Dollar-a-Year Men 243 -- A. Mitchell Palmer, Alien Property Custodian 246 -- Warren G. Harding 250 -- Extramarital Affairs and an Illegitimate Child 251 -- Teapot Dome 254 -- Harry M. Daugherty, Attorney General 260 -- Enforcement of Prohibition 263 -- E. Mont Reily, Governor of Puerto Rico 265 -- Charles R. Forbes, Director of the Veterans Bureau 267 -- Harding's Death 268 -- Calvin Coolidge 270 -- Teapot Dome 271 -- Harry M. Daugherty, Attorney General 274 -- Ford-Coolidge Deal 276 -- Andrew Mellon, Secretary of the Treasury 279 -- Charles Beecher Warren, Attorney General Nominee 281 -- Herbert Hoover 283 -- Hoover and the Cuban Sugar Lobbyist 285 -- Summer Camp on the Rapidan River 286 -- Colorado Oil Shale Lands 287 -- Charles G. Dawes and the RFC Loan 290 -- Walter F. Brown and the Air Mail Contracts 293 -- Franklin D. Roosevelt 298 -- Extramarital Affairs 300 -- Louis McHenry Howe, FDR's Secretary 301 -- The Second Louisiana Purchase 304 -- Works Progress Administration 307 -- Tennessee Valley Authority 309 -- Roosevelt Family 313 -- Dollar-a-Year Men 315 -- Harry S. Truman 319 -- Kansas City Election Inquiry 320 -- Harry H. Vaughan, Staffer 322 -- Grain Commodity Speculation 323 -- Reconstruction Finance Corporation Investigation 324 -- Bureau of Internal Revenue 326 -- Special Corruption Inquiry 329 -- Department of Justice Investigation 330 -- Dwight D. Eisenhower 332 -- Extramarital Affair 333 -- Nixon Slush Fund 335 -- Sherman Adams, Assistant to the President 336 -- Dixon-Yates Contract 338 -- Presidential Gifts 340 -- John F. Kennedy 343 -- Sexual Escapades 345 -- Stewart Udall, Secretary of the Interior 348 -- TFX Fighter-Bombers 350 -- Billie Sol Estes 353 -- Lyndon B. Johnson 358 -- 1948 Senate Election Fraud 359 -- Robert G. "Bobby" Baker 361 -- Walter Jenkins, Chief of Staff 363 -- Johnson Fortune 364 -- Abe Fortas, Supreme Court Justice 365 -- Extramarital Affairs and Illegitimate Children 366 -- Richard Nixon 369 -- Marianna Liu 371 -- Spiro Agnew, Vice President 372 -- Nixon Jewelry 373 -- Watergate 374 -- Gerald R. Ford 385 -- Nixon Pardon 387 -- Betty Ford's Addictions 389 -- James E. Carter 391 -- Playboy Interview 392 -- Billy Carter and the Libyan Connection 393 -- Hamilton Jordan, Presidential Aide 395 -- Bert Lance, Budget Director 398 -- Ronald Reagan 401 -- Debategate 403 -- October Surprise 404 -- Samuel Pierce, HUD Secretary 405 -- Wedtech 407 -- Anne Gorsuch Burford, EPA Director 410 -- James Watt, Secretary of the Interior 411 -- Raymond Donovan, Secretary of Labor 411 -- Lobbying Violations 413 -- Douglas Ginsburg, Supreme Court Nominee 415 -- Iran-Contra Affair 415 -- Insider Trading and Other Financial Irregularities 420 -- George H. Bush 422 -- John Tower, Secretary of Defense Nominee 424 -- John Sununu, Chief of Staff 425 -- Clarence Thomas, Supreme Court Justice 427 -- Jennifer Fitzgerald, White House Aide 427 -- Elizabeth Tamposi and the Privacy Act 428 -- Iran-Contra Pardons 429 -- William J. Clinton 430 -- Draft Status 431 -- Marijuana Use 432 -- Sexual Affairs 433 -- Sexual Misconduct and Harassment 438 -- Zoe Baird and Kimba Wood, Attorney General Nominees 442 -- Whitewater Land Deal 443 -- Filegate 445 -- Travelgate 446 -- Vincent Foster Suicide 447 -- Mike Espy, Secretary of Agriculture 447 -- Henry Cisneros, HUD Secretary 449 -- Ron Brown, Secretary of Commerce 449 -- 1996 Campaign Fundraising 450 -- Spying at Los Alamos Laboratory 452 -- Impeachment 453 -- Bruce Babbitt, Secretary of the Interior 455 -- Alexis M. Herman, Secretary of Labor 456.

ISBN

1568024142 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^99043953^

OCLC

42290914

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library