The Business Plot

The Business Plot

This is also a true conspiracy, and it makes one wonder about the current election process.

This happened in 1933 when a group of wealthy business men, including the heads of Chase Bank, GM, Goodyear, Standard Oil and DuPont, cooked up a plot to replace FDR with a fascist dictatorship. The wild part is that they tried to recruit Prescott Bush, a Marine Corps Major General to help them. He was George Bush's father and George W. Bush's grandfather. Fortunately, this plan failed to materialize, mostly because Prescott was loyal to FDR and had actually stumped for him in his election campaign. Oops!

The strange thing about this conspiracy is that no one was charged with treason or any other crime, and this after the plot had been revealed. There was a House of Representatives committee formed to investigate the plot, but it never actually did anything, This sounds like someone paid off to avoid any stink about it. Everyone accused of the plot vehemently denied it. The Marine Corps looked into the allegations, but the only thing that emerged from these investigations is the admission that there was a plot.

As an adjunct to this conspiracy, a large group of World War I veterans converged on Washington to demand their bonuses on July 17, 1932. They set up a tent city so that they could continuously protest. They were given the name of  'Bonus Army', but the then President Herbert Hoover sent Genera Douglas McArthur to chase them away and remove their tent city.

It turns out that General Smedley Butler, a well respected retired Marine Corps General, testified to the McCormack Dickstein House committee that people had approached him and asked that he help them overthrow FDR in a coup and form a fascist government. This same Butler character, despite being a Republican, supported Roosevelt in the election.

This affair sounds to me like a Manchurian Candidate or Homeland movie plot. However, one thing to keep in mind is that many European countries entertained fascist governments, including Germany, Italy, and Spain. And, of course we know what that led to.

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