GREAT MOMENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY #21 -- July 30, 1917 On this day, New York City hotel detectives burst in and caught then- Senator Warren G. Harding in bed with an underage girl. He bought them off with a $20 bribe, and later remarked thankfully, "I thought I wouldn't get out of that under $1000!" Always one to learn from his mistakes, in later years President Harding carried on his affairs in a tiny closet in the White House Cabinet Room while Secret Service men stood lookout.

GREAT MOMENTS IN AMERICAN HISTORY #21 -- July 30, 1917



On this day, New York City hotel detectives burst in and caught then-

Senator Warren G. Harding in bed with an underage girl. He bought them

off with a $20 bribe, and later remarked thankfully, "I thought I

wouldn't get out of that under $1000!" Always one to learn from his

mistakes, in later years President Harding carried on his affairs in a

tiny closet in the White House Cabinet Room while Secret Service men

stood lookout.



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