Albert Fall was the 1st man guilty of this type of crime done as a Cabinet secy.--we don't know about misdemeanors
[DOC] [TLE] Full text of "Unimpeachment Of Richard Nixon Manuscript" [PAR] (In 1929 Albert Fall, President Warren G. Harding's Secretary of the Interior, was 
... agreed to let Kleindienst plead guilty to a misdemeanor, in part because the 
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