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...where they were later burned by Union soldiers. Lincoln's papers were turned over to the Government by his son with the stipulation that the letters would not be accessible to the public until 1947. Warren G. Harding's papers disappeared after his sudden death following the Teapot Dome affair, then turned up mysteriously years later in his home town of Marion, Ohio. Though 25 Presidents or their families handed over their documents to the Library of Congress free of charge, Congress paid at least $190,000 for the documents of some of the early Presidents. Chief Executives...
While the crews of Courageous and Southern Cross battled for the America's Cup in Rhode Island Sound, members of the Newport Reading Room were embroiled in a teapot-sized tiff of their own. As a story by Reporter Sally Quinn in the Washington Post had it, New York Senator Jacob Javits, who is Jewish, and his wife Marion were all but tossed out of the tony old club when they arrived for a prerace dance as guests of Nuala and Claiborne Pell, Rhode Island's Democratic Senator. Quinn's intimations of anti-Semitism raised speedy protests...
...weeklies, but all in all it is now a better medium of mass information. It therefore deserves more public confidence than the polls you quote indicate. The 1972 Watergate disclosures, it is true, were made by only a score of the members of the mass media, but I remember Teapot Dome when only one of our 1,750 dailies (the Albuquerque Morning Journal) dared to tell the truth about White House corruption. We have come a long way since...
...been used consistently. Investigative journalism, for instance, has run in cycles, flourishing most conspicuously in the first decade of this century, when muckrakers like Lincoln Steffens, Jacob Riis and Ida Tarbell raged against civic corruption, social injustice and industrial abuses. There was some revival in the 1920s, during Teapot Dome and Prohibition, and again, with different stresses, during the Depression. World War II and the cold war created a sense of common goals in the nation, and had some pacifying effect on relations between the press and the Federal Government...
...During the Teapot Dome scandal, what did 12-year-old Richard Nixon tell his mother, Hannah, he had decided to become...