The Teapot Dome scandal was a bribery aspersion comprising the government of Warren G. Harding, the then U.S.President. Albert Bacon Fall, the then Secretary of the Interior chartered Navy petroleum supplies at Teapot Dome and 2 places in California, to individual oil corporations at cheap prices without competing bidding. The contracts were the topic of a critical inquiry by Senator Thomas J. Walsh. Adjudged of taking kickbacks from the oil corporations, Fall became the earliest administrative committee officer to go to penitentiary.
The Byzantine Arab wars were some of the longest lasting in history. They mostly pitted Arab Muslims against Eastern Roman or Byzantine Empire between the 7th and 11th centuries AD. The wars started during the initial Muslim conquests
Explanation: This is just a tradition that President Roosevelt started there really isn't much to it besides it is a tradition. Even Donald Trump nowadays does it and keeps the tradition going. Hope this helps. ;)