PRESIDENTS WORKSHEET 61
Name
SCANDALS (#25-34)
Write the number of the president during whose administration each incident occurred.
Some presidents may be matched more than once and others not at all.
_____ Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall accepts bribes
from Harry Sinclair for control of the Teapot Dome
federal oil reserves in Wyoming.
_____ Fall serves a year in prison after conviction for conspiracy and bribery.
_____ He frolics with his six children around the White
House grounds in a manner that many consider unbecoming the President of the United States.
_____ White House Chief of Staff Sherman Adams resigns
after being cited for Contempt of Congress.
_____ Lucy Mercer is present when the president dies but
not his wife.
_____ The nominee for vice president delivers his “Checkers Speech” on TV to deny charges that he received
questionable campaign contributions.
_____ The First Lady develops epilepsy and becomes fully
dependent on her husband. Some of her seizures occur in public, during which he places a napkin or handkerchief over her face.
_____ Newspaper and magazine articles discuss the question, “Does the president play too much golf?” One
story says he dictates letters in his office while swinging a club.
_____ The president’s approval rating drops after he fires
General Douglas MacArthur as commander of the
United Nations troops in Korea.
_____ Some criticize the president for keeping so many animals in the White House, including a lizard, guinea
pigs, a small bear, a one-legged rooster, a hyena, an
owl, a rabbit, and a pony.
_____ Senator Joseph McCarthy holds hearings to investigate his claims that thousands of government employees are Communist sympathizers.
_____ Attorney General Harry Daugherty resigns after an
investigation into a bootlegging kickback scheme.
25 William McKinley
26 Theodore Roosevelt
27 William Howard Taft
28 Woodrow Wilson
29 Warren Harding
30 Calvin Coolidge
31 Herbert Hoover
32 Franklin D. Roosevelt
33 Harry S. Truman
34 Dwight D. Eisenhower
PRESIDENTS WORKSHEET 61
Name
ANSWER KEY
SCANDALS (#25-34)
Write the number of the president during whose administration each incident occurred.
Some presidents may be matched more than once and others not at all.
29
Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall accepts bribes
from Harry Sinclair for control of the Teapot Dome
federal oil reserves in Wyoming.
30
Fall serves a year in prison after conviction for conspiracy and bribery.
26
He frolics with his six children around the White
House grounds in a manner that many consider unbecoming the President of the United States.
34
White House Chief of Staff Sherman Adams resigns
after being cited for Contempt of Congress.
32
Lucy Mercer is present when the president dies but
not his wife.
33
The nominee for vice president delivers his “Checkers
Speech” on TV to deny charges that he received
questionable campaign contributions.
25
The First Lady suffers from epilepsy and is fully dependent on her husband. Some of her seizures occur
in public, during which he places a napkin or handkerchief over her face.
34
Newspaper and magazine articles discuss the question, “Does the president play too much golf?” One
story says he dictates letters in his office while swinging a club.
33
The president’s approval rating drops after he fires
General Douglas MacArthur as commander of the
United Nations troops in Korea.
26
Some criticize the president for keeping so many animals in the White House, including a lizard, guinea
pigs, a small bear, a one-legged rooster, a hyena, an
owl, a rabbit, and a pony.
34
Senator Joseph McCarthy holds hearings to investigate his claims that thousands of government employees are Communist sympathizers.
30
Attorney General Harry Daugherty resigns after an
investigation into a bootlegging kickback scheme.
25 William McKinley
26 Theodore Roosevelt
27 William Howard Taft
28 Woodrow Wilson
29 Warren Harding
30 Calvin Coolidge
31 Herbert Hoover
32 Franklin D. Roosevelt
33 Harry S. Truman
34 Dwight D. Eisenhower
Albert Fall
Douglas MacArthur
Joseph McCarthy