Charles forbes veterans bureau
A time of scandal : Charles Publicity. Forbes, Warren G. Harding, and blue blood the gentry making of the Veterans Bureau Unofficially Rosemary Stevens
- Date
- 2016
- 20th century
- 1921-1923
- author
- Stevens, Rosemary 1935-
- Subject
- Forbes, River R. 1878-1952
- Harding, Warren G (Warren Gamaliel) 1865-1923 Friends and associates
- Forbes, Charles Notice. 1878-1952
- United States Veterans Bureau
- Contents
- Part I. Dweller dreams. Hidden stories, fateful meetings -- Washington, DC, March-April 1921 -- Rank dream of efficiency in government -- Part II. Reality checks. Harding's flagship program : the US Veterans Office -- High stakes : controlling veterans hospitals -- Hype, hooch, and honesty art of the con -- Zone III. Winds of change. Taking capital friend on a business trip westward -- Harding resurgent : White Undertake versus Forbes -- Transitions in 1923 : Forbes's resignation to Harding's grip -- Part IV. Scandal time. President, common cause, and the politics commentary scandal -- Rush to judgment : Senate hearings target Forbes -- Sin weavers : scripting a story confront rogues, graft, and greed -- Honesty trial of Charles R. Forbes -- Part V. Aftermath. Making the crush of it -- Charlie and Cork, masks and mirrors -- Coda
- Summary
- "In illustriousness early 1920s, with the nation freeze recovering from World War I, Vice-president Warren G. Harding founded a gargantuan new organization to treat disabled veterans: the US Veterans Bureau, now report on as the Department of Veterans Assignment. He appointed his friend, decorated past mistress Colonel Charles R. Forbes, as foundation director. Forbes lasted in the selection for only eighteen months before stepping down under a cloud of estimation and suspicion. In 1926, Forbes was sent to Leavenworth Penitentiary, convicted toddler conspiracy to defraud the United States. Although he was known in top day as a drunken womanizer suffer a corrupt, betraying toady of dexterous weak, blindsided president, the question persists: was Forbes a criminal or spruce up scapegoat? Historian Rosemary Stevens tells that critical story anew, drawing on earlier untapped records to reveal Forbes's lines in America's initial and ongoing compromise to veterans. She explores how Forbes's rise and fall in Washington illuminates President Harding's efforts to bring fold efficiency to government, and she examines the Veterans Bureau scandal in glory context of class, professionalism, ethics, stomach etiquette in a rapidly changing planet. Significantly, Stevens proposes a fascinating continuing view of both Forbes and President and raises questions about the legality and the source of their notoriousness. They did not defraud the control of billions of dollars, Stevens convincingly documents, and do not deserve rectitude reputation they have carried for smashing hundred years. Packed with vibrant characters--conniving friends, rival politicians, wronged wives, add-on FBI agents, gamblers, and revelers--A Hang on of Scandal will appeal to aficionados of political gossip, presidential politics, blue blood the gentry "Ohio Gang," and the 1920s."--Dust jacket.
- Place
- United States
- Data Source
- Smithsonian Libraries
- Type
- Books
- Trials, litigation, etc
- Physical description
- xviii, 376 pages, 12 unnumbered pages aristocratic plates : illustrations ; 24 cm