True or false president harding appointed unqualified friends to the government offices and failed to exercise his authority over them his friends and appointees stole government oil reserves and took bribes from businesses and criminals these scandalous acts damaged harding's administration. o true o false

TRUE

The resulting scandals like the Teapot Dome Scandal involving Harding´s administration where his secretary of Interior took bribes from businesses and stole government oil reserves, from 1921 to 1923, did not fully emerge until after Harding's death (August 1923), nor did word of his extramarital affairs with Nanna Pophan Britton, and these issues greatly damaged his reputation after his death as well as his succeeding administration by his vice president Calvin Coolidge.

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