Expert Answer: <span>There were even blunt spokesmen who went so far as to suggest that the United States had made a bad bargain in annexing New Mexico. Some years after the Civil War, General William T. Sherman, who heartily disliked the arid country and the people of the Southwest, was quoted as saying that “the United States ought to declare war on Mexico and make it take back New Mexico.”
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Albert Fall was the Secretary of the Interior during the presidency of Warren G. Harding. His involvement with the military was that in 1921 he convince Secretary of the Navy, Edwin Debin, that the Department of the Interior should be in charge of the oil Naval Reserves at Tea Pot Dome, Wyoming and also Elk Hill, California.
Fall's lack of ethics made him lease these reserves to wealthy businessmen and he received millions in exchange. This was known as the Tea Por Scandal. He was convicted of bribery and sent to jail.
"b. lived in the same state for 10 years" would not be a requirement needed in order to become president, since people quite often move around between various states during their lives.
