The Watergate and Teapot Dome investigations proceeded without the benefit of such a law.

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Harding on the economy in 1924 but not on the Teapot Dome scandal.

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From their long experience of scandals and quasi-scandals, from Teapot Dome through Watergate and Iran-contra, Americans should have acquired a decent grasp of what is corrupt political behaviour and what is not.

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