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heightened suspicions surrounding the Travelgate investigation.

Billygate was not a scandal during Clinton's presidency. It was a scandal under the Carter administration, in 1980.

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Some are not in the History books and probably shouldn't be. Others were major scandals at the time but have been forgotten by history as new and bigger scandals come to light. Here are a few blunders in American History that were fodder for the tabloids: * The Duel between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. * The Petticoat Affair during Andrew Jackson's presidency. * The Credit Mobilier Railroad Scandal. * The Teapot Dome Scandal. * The Vicuna Coat Scandal. * The Pentagon Papers. * Watergate. * Spiro Agnew. * The Nixon Jewelry Scandal. * Billygate. * The Keating Five. * The House Banking Scandal. Travelgate, Macacagate, Dukegate, Lawyergate, and the hundreds more corruption, sex related and bribery "Gates" that could be named. Here are some of the more prominent scandals in US History: Benedict Arnold agrees to help turn over West Point to the British during the American Revolution. The Teapot Dome and other major scandals during the Harding Administration. Civil War Profiteering. Businesses over pricing shoddy goods and selling to government. Credit Mobilier scandal of the 1880s in which the Railroads created dummy construction companies to over charge the government. Fisk and Gould, capitalists, attempt to corner the gold market. The Panic of 1873. Savings and Loan scandals of the 1980s.