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== Failings ==
== Failings ==
=== Labor interests ===
Mr. Harding's administration errantly helped bring about the 40-hour work week which restricted the economic output of the US and restricted small, medium and large businesses alike. Still this reactionary event did help calm a period of increased labor tension.
Mr. Harding's administration errantly helped bring about the 40-hour work week which restricted the economic output of the US and restricted small, medium and large businesses alike. Still this reactionary event did help calm a period of increased labor tension.
=== Teapot Dome incident ===
Mr. Harding, in a quest to help re-privatize land taken from the American people and industry by their own government, appointed Senator Albert B. Fall of New Mexico as his Secretary of the Interior. While Falls efforts to open reserves for private exploration are commendable, he misappropriated this effort for his own gain in an abuse of the public trust. In revenge, Democrats in congress, lead by Senator [[Thomas J. Walsh] and Senator [[Robert M. LaFollette]], began an investigation with the support of the [[conservationist]] that backed them. They found that Fall had used his privatization efforts to benefit himself to the tune of over $400,000. Mr. Fall also had entangled other businessmen and politicians into his wrongdoing which lead to other indictments of both Democrats and Republicans and continued into the Coolidge administration. <ref>http://ap.grolier.com/article?assetid=0380900-00</ref>
== Assault in the MSM ==
== Assault in the MSM ==