The house was rented by associates of President Harding's Attorney General Harry Daugherty, including Jess Smith and Howard Mannington, known as the Ohio Gang.

[1] According to testimony before the Senate Committee investigating the Teapot Dome bribery scandal,[2][3][4] it was the gang's unofficial headquarters, where many of the deals were hatched.

The investigation was further undermined when the other key witness, Gaston Means, retracted his entire testimony in an affidavit.

He admitted to jointly coaching Stinson in her testimony along with Senator Burton Wheeler.

[8] In 1934, Congressman Fred Britten, a Republican of Illinois, famously compared the Red House on R Street in Georgetown, where the original New Dealers strategized during the early years of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Administration, to the Little Green House on K Street.