Nixon vs Harding
...R. and China by making visits to Beijing and Moscow. His meetings with Leonid I. Brezhnev, Russia’s leader, produced a treaty to limit strategic nuclear weapons. Newspapers seemed to be portraying Harding’s administration in a good way. Once someone looked beyond that, he or she found scandals. Harding’s friends were said to be using their official positions for their own good. In addition, there was the Teapot Dome Scandal. It consisted of the secret leasing of naval oil reserve land to private companies. Nixon was also president when the Watergate scandal arose, which was a break-in at the offices of the Democratic National Committee during the 1972 campaign. Nixon denied involvement with the scandal. Later, courts forced him to hand over tape recordings showing h...