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The most sensational allegations include one that President Harding and Attorney General Harry M. Daugherty participated in bacchanalian orgies at the Ohio Gang's Little Green House on K Street in Washington, D. C .; witnesses to this were considered unreliable and one was a convicted perjurer.

Also, in his 1987 book The Fiery Cross, historian Wyn Craig Wade suggested that President Harding had ties with the Ku Klux Klan, perhaps having been inducted into the organization in a private White House ceremony.

Evidence included the taped testimony of one of the members of the alleged induction team ; however, evidence beyond that is scanty.

Other historians generally dismiss these stories.

However, in the 1998 History Channel documentary entitled Ku Klux Klan: A Secret History, the speculation that Harding may have joined the group is highlighted by the fact that William J. Simmons, the founder of the modern Klan, once visited the President at the White House.