HARDING, WARREN G. Typed Letter Signed, as President

ATTORNEY GENERAL LOOKS FOR PLACES TO HIDE HARDING, WARREN G. Typed Letter Signed, as President, to Postmaster General Harry S. New, requesting that he consider Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty for a position at the post office in Uhrichsville, OH. 1 page, small 4to, White House stationery; lower edge unevenly trimmed, two punch holes and small tear at upper edge, faint marginal discoloration, remnants of hinging at upper edge verso, horizontal fold. - Washington, 11 June 1923

At the end of March 1928, Calvin Coolidge dismissed the Attorney General who held the same position in the Harding administration, Harry M. Daugherty, because of his alleged--and never substantiated--involvement in the "Teapot Dome" scandal. The Teapot Dome Oil Field in WY was one of the government-owned fields leased by Secretary of the Interior Albert Bacon Fall to private companies in 1922. It was discovered that Fall was accepting bribes in exchange for arranging the lucrative leases, and he was sentenced to prison.