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The area into the national spotlight. The teapot dome scandal was probably the most significant president ial scandal in American History in the 20th century up until watergate, anyway. It implicated members of the cabinet. It certainly could have implicated president harding, had he lived. It became a rather notorious event, even today as they are preparing to sell off the teapot dome Naval Petroleum reserve. Soon after the turnofthecentury when the u. S. Navy was starting to shift from those very clunky coalburning battleships to oilburning ships, it occurred to various officials in the government that we might run out of oil. What is to happen if suddenly we are in the middle of a war with a fleet that is being powered by ships andfired suddenly we do not have any oil . So, the decision was made by the department of the navy to go out and find on public land some known oil reserves that were still on public land, set them aside from exploration and development, and in essence, save

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