Question 0100503:

"No rumor could have exceeded the reality [in the White House]; the study was filled with cronies, the air heavy with tobacco smoke, trays with bottles containing every imaginable brand of whiskey stood about, cards and poker chips ready at hand--a general atmosphere of waist-coat unbuttoned, feet on the desk, and the spittoon alongside."--Alice Roosevelt Longworth

This quote describes the White House of which Republican American president, whose administration was rocked with scandals and who died before completing his first term?

    (A)    William Howard Taft
    (B)    Warren Gamaliel Harding
    (C)    Herbert Hoover
    (D)    Chester A. Arthur
    (E)    George H.W. Bush

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