MSNBCW The Rachel Maddow Show January 14, 2021
Ulysses s. Grant named him to be americas secretary of war, and then stuff started to go wrong. On the relatively meager salary that came with that cabinet position, William Belknap, secretary of war, started throwing really, really lavish parties in washington. And that was true with his first wife. It was also true with his second wife. He was just very obviously living this ostentatious, High Society Life of conspicuous consumption in washington that nobody knew he should be able to afford. Nobody knew where the money was coming from, until they figured it out, because it turned out where h...