1. Corruption was general post Civil War. Unusual amounts of money floating around. 2. Some scandals were congressional not executive (Credit Mobilier). 3. Grant was at worst naive re the gold corner, and moved to end it (it had cracked already of its own weight).https://twitter.com/jchmcl09/status/1229473302512635904 …
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That story is always pushed aside when bemoaning the corruption in Grant's administration or other money scandals in some Reconstruction era state governments.
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