7 It also created the General Accounting Office (renamed the Government Acc...
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7 It also created the General Accounting Office (renamed the Government Accountability Office in 2004) to get a better handle on the debt and increasingly complex federal financial transactions that followed World War I. Harding gave his secretary of state, Charles Evans Hughes, free rein over foreign affairs.
chapter: Chapter 4: The 1920s: Political Isolationism, Financial Internationalism