Interior Department’s return to the ‘Robber Baron’ years

Interior Department’s return to the ‘Robber Baron’ years

Posted by on Dec 9, 2017 @ 6:36 am in Conservation | 0 comments | Last modified: December 8, 2017

In 1921, President Warren G. Harding, R, at the behest of the oil barons who financed his election, appointed Albert Bacon Fall to be his secretary of the Interior. Fall had vowed not only to transfer all public lands to private interests, but also to abolish the Interior Department altogether. As a Cabinet member, he set out to dismantle the conservation ethos that...

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