September 20, 1911, will be remembered as the day the truth finally caught up with Gifford Pinchot, the self-proclaimed ‘guardian of the American conscience.’ In a scathing special message, President William Howard Taft delivered a knockout blow to Pinchot’s allegations of maladministration and unholy combinations regarding the Chugach National Forest in Alaska. The President’s message, sent to Congress in July, laid bare the facts behind the elimination of certain land fronting on Controller Bay, which had been the subject of Pinchot’s inflammatory rhetoric.
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Key Facts
- State: National
- Category: Public Corruption
- Era: Historical
- Source: Library of Congress — Chronicling America ↗
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