How Did Warren G Harding Influence His Government

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Warren G. Harding owned a newspaper before he became the 29th president. He served as a state legislature, lieutenant governor and senator before he was elected as president. Harding supported tax cuts and civil liberties, but he delegated a lot of responsibilities to his cabinet members. Some of the people he appointed were corrupt and there was a lot of scandals, like the Tea Pot Dome Scandal where the Secretary of Interior leased lands with a lot of oil to companies in exchange for personal favors. Harding died of a heart attack 3 years after he was elected and later, it was revealed that he had affairs and has a daughter by one of the women he cheated on his wife with.

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