igation conducted by Sen. Thomas J. Walsh. It was found that in 1921, Doheny had lent Fall $100,000, interest-free, and that upon Fall’s retirement as Secretary of the Interior (Mar. 1923) Sinclair also “loaned” him a large amount of money. The investigation led to criminal prosecutions. Fall was indicted for conspiracy and for accepting bribes. Convicted of the latter charge, he was sentenced to a year in prison and fined $100,000. In another trial for bribery Doheny and Sinclair were acquitted, although Sinclair was subsequently sentenced to prison for contempt of the Senate and for employing detectives to shadow members of the jury in his case. The oil fields were restored to the U.S. government through a Supreme Court decision in 1927(Bates, 1).So could this well be the one factor connecting the scandals and him? In this relationship we have him giving the navy’s oil to a known thief. As an answer to the question I have just posed. I would have to say, “no is the answer”, quite frankly the only way he was connected to this scandal is that he was the president and they (The members that were in the cabinet that wronged the country) were his cabinet.But before all this talk about scandal and him being the worst president lets roll down a street call to Memory Lane: His Childhood. Down this lane you look out the window and you see a kid nick-named ‘Winnie’ mostly not doing his schoolwork thinking about the school paper the Iberian Spectator, seeing how he was the editor of it. A little ways down the road you look and see him selling Insurance but getting tiered of it only after a yeah. Later on he bought a decrepit five-column four-page newspaper called Marion Star. The paper quickly took to expansion, soon after while his successful newspaper was still doing well he married a woman with one eleven-yeah-old child. The woman’s name was Florence Kling DeWolfe (Murray, 390). ...
