White House Scandals on QuizRevolution

Two. Franklin Pierce was busted after running down an old woman with his horse, but the case was later dropped. And Ulysses S. Grant was at the reins when he was arrested for speeding in his horse and buggy.

Checkers was the name of the family dog. In his emotional speech, Nixon denied misusing funds but admitted accepting a dog as a gift to his children. His speech won over the public and convinced Dwight Eisenhower to keep him on the ticket.

G. Gordon Liddy, E. Howard Hunt, and former attorney general John Mitchell were all members of the Committee to Re-Elect the President. All of them served time in prison for their crimes.

Oliver North was the only man to stand trial for his role in the Iran-contra affair. This goes to show how Ronald Reagan got his nickname of "the Teflon president".

The Teapot Dome scandal was one of many scandals to plague Warren G. Harding's presidency. Teapot Dome, Wyoming was one of two federal oil reserves that interior secretary Albert Fall leased to private drilling companies in exchange for kickbacks. Fall later became the first cabinet officer in American history to go to jail.

Although there were a number of charges brought against Johnson during the impeachment, the majority of them focused on his violating the Tenure of Office Act (removing secretary of war from office).

During his presidency, a rumor developed that Thomas Jefferson had fathered several illegitimate children with Sally Hemings, one of his slaves. Although this claim has been hotly debated, two independent tests in the late 1990s indicate that Jefferson was almost certainly the father of Eston Hemings, one of Sally's sons.