On this day, April 7, in 1922, the U.S. secretary of the interior secretly sold the rights to public oil reserves in what became known as the Teapot Dome bribery scandal.
Teapot Dome, an oil field on public land in Wyoming, entered the lexicon as a synonym for government cronyism.
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