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He would have surely been impeached but resigned instead on August 9, Basically, money that had been obtained through selling arms to Iran was given secretly to the revolutionary Contras in Nicaragua. Along with helping the Contras, the hope was that by selling the weapons to Iran, terrorists would be more willing to give up hostages. This scandal resulted in major Congressional hearings. Bill Clinton was implicated in a couple of scandals, the most significant for his presidency was the Monica Lewinsky affair.
Lewinsky was a White House staffer with whom Clinton had an intimate relationship, or as he later put it, an "improper physical relationship. The Senate did not vote to remove him from office but the event did mar his presidency as he joined Andrew Johnson as only the second president to be impeached.
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Measure content performance. Develop and improve products. List of Partners vendors. Share Flipboard Email. Martin Kelly. History Expert. Martin Kelly, M. Updated January 30, Cite this Article Format. Kelly, Martin. Timeline of American History from to The truth still remains elusive. All of these scandals created a lot of furor and brought bad publicity to the politician s and the political party involved.
But none had such a far reaching impact as the Watergate scandal which caused, for the first time, a reigning President to resign fearing impeachment. In Jefferson was charged with having an affair with his slave, Sally Hemmings, and in fact fathering a child. The Credit Mobilier scandal was the first major corruption scandal in the wake of the Civil War.
However, they tried to cover this up by selling stocks in their company at a large discount to government officials and Congress members including Vice President Schuyler Colfax. When this was discovered, it hurt many reputations including that of Ulysses S. The story was broken by the New York newspaper, The Sun, during the presidential campaign, when S.
Grant was running for re-election. And with good reason, as two major scandals took place during his presidency. The second was the Whiskey Ring scandal; Involving a bribery and tax evasion scandal among many high ranking members of his cabinet and even his own private secretary and whiskey distillers.
In , it was revealed that many government employees were pocketing whiskey taxes. Grant called for swift punishment but caused further scandal when he moved to protect his personal secretray who had been implicated in the affair.
This biggest political scandal in the United States that came to light in November During the Reagan administration, senior administration officials secretly facilitated the sale of arms to Iran, the subject of an arms embargo.
Basically, money that had been obtained through selling arms to Iran was given secretly to the revolutionary Contras in Nicaragua. Other than helping the Contras, the hope was that by selling the weapons to Iran, terrorists would be more willing to give up hostages. This scandal resulted in major Congressional hearings. The Lewinsky scandal was a political sex scandal emerging in , from a sexual relationship between United States President Bill Clinton and a year-old White House intern, Monica Lewinsky.
Perhaps no other scandal in presidential history can equal the Monica Lewinsky affair for pure sensationalism and absurdity. Bill Clinton was implicated in a couple of scandals, the most significant for his presidency was the Monica Lewinsky affair. He was constantly butting heads in Congress, mainly with Radical Republicans who had the majority. He did so anyway, which entered him in a long impeachment trial.
Still, Congress was left one vote short of having the two-thirds majority to confirm the impeachment. President Thomas Jefferson, the third U. He fell in love with Sally Hemings, who was his servant and of mixed-race.
This scandal did not break out in real-time as its details were revealed years later when a journalist broke the story in It turned out that Jefferson and Hemings were together for more than thirty years and had six children.
The story was not confirmed until when DNA analysis of their descendants showed a very high chance of kinship. This step enabled him to award contracts to private oil companies to suit his own benefit.
The process did not include any bidding, meaning that the Department of Interior, ruled by Fall, was able to award a contract to the company of their own liking. When smaller oil companies complained about it, the Senate launched one of its most essential investigations in U. Investigations showed that Fall received extensive bribery from companies he eventually contracted. For many in Washington DC, it finally became clear how Fall got so rich so quickly. None of the candidates in the election managed to win the majority of votes.
The race was up to Congress to decide. Before the vote in Congress, Henry Clay announced he was going to support Adams. To everyone's disbelief, Adams then made Clay his secretary of state.
Jackson won the popular vote, so he and his supporters united in disagreement with the "Corrupt Bargain" between Adams and Clay and helped to elect Jackson in The group was the foundation of political actors who would later form the Democratic Party.
President Woodrow Wilson was a respected statesman and president, famous for his role in the progressive movement. Still, even he was involved in a presidential scandal. His first wife, Ellen Louise Axson, died in
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