just about the time the oil leases were being sold to private investors, ned mclane had said he lent secretary fall all that money. secretary fall didn't have to get it through illegal means. then finally, walsh got mclane to come up here and testify in this room and said did you lend him the money? he said yes, i did but he returned it right away. that pulled the rug out from robert fall. it became clear fall had taken the bribe. he became the first member of a president's cabinet to go to jail as a result. the attorney general was also involved. the whole harding administration coming apart at the seams. coolidge came in as president, a different type of person. there was a sense of trying to clean up the mess of teapot dome. teapot dome not only led to legislation but major supreme court decisions. people weren't quite sure what the rights of congress were. one of the issues was, can the congress call just a private citizen who's not a federal official? the supreme court that summer because of teapot dome said yes, anybody can be called to testify before congress. there's a case of