Gerald MacGuire person
also: Gerald McGuire, McGuire, Maguire, Jerry
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Claims (7)
Gerald MacGuire member_of
Grayson M.-P. Murphy & Co. documented
“a Gerald McGuire, who worked for Grayson, M.P., Murphy and Company,…”
▶ Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR @ 1:10:15
Gerald MacGuire member_of
American Legion documented
“a plan for a White House dictatorship was outlined to him by two members of the American Legion, a Gerald McGuire, who worked for Grayson, M.P., Murphy and Company,…”
▶ Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR @ 1:10:15
Gerald MacGuire recruited
Smedley Butler documented
“He testified in the 1934 Congressional Committee hearings investigating Nazi and communist activity in the U.S. that a plan for a White House dictatorship was outlined to him by two members of the American Legion…”
▶ Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR @ 1:10:15
Grayson M.P. Murphy funded
Gerald MacGuire documented
“To prove his Wall Street financial backing, McGuire showed General Butler a bank book listing deposits of $42,000 and $64,000 and mentioned that their source was Grayson M.P. Murphy.…”
▶ Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR @ 1:11:44
Gerald MacGuire proposed
Business Plot book_quoted
“But to kick him upstairs and install an assistant president with absolute powers, just why it was necessary to go through the trouble of installing an assistant president is unclear because the vice president was in office.…”
▶ Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR @ 1:20:51
Gerald MacGuire paid
Smedley Butler documented
“McGuire and Doyle also offered Butler a substantial sum to make a similar speech in front of the VFW in Miami Beach.…”
▶ Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR @ 1:12:11
Gerald MacGuire attempted_coup_against
Franklin D. Roosevelt book_quoted
“General Butler is reported to have testified that the affair was an attempted coup to overthrow President Roosevelt and replace him with a fascist dictator. That interpretation is repeated by many writers. However, that is not the accusatio…”
▶ Antony Sutton book review of relationship of Wall Street and FDR @ 1:15:28
Mentions (15)
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widely known Marine Corps officer, twice decorated with the Congressional Medal of Honor and 33 years of military service. He testified in the 1934 Congressional Committee hearings investigating Nazi and communist activity in the U.S. that …
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There would be 200 or 300 American Legion members in the audience, and these planted fellows were to begin to cheer and start a stampede, yelling for a speech, and he was going to be prepared to make a speech. Mifflin, which has extensive m…
▶ 1:11:44
SELDES, S-E-L-D-E-S, 1,000 Americans, which also had to do with this. The prepared speech was to be written by Morgan associate John W. Davis. To prove his Wall Street financial backing, McGuire showed General Butler a bank book listing dep…
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director of Guarantee Trust Company and other Morgan-controlled companies, a millionaire banker, Robert Clark, with offices at the New York Stock Exchange building. Robert Clark was incidentally known to General Butler from his China days. …
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According to Maguire, his group had investigated the background of Mussolini and Italian fascism, Hitler's organization in Germany, and a similar organization in France, and hinted that it was time to establish a similar organization in the…
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General Butler is reported to have testified that the affair was an attempted coup to overthrow President Roosevelt and replace him with a fascist dictator. That interpretation is repeated by many writers. However, that is not the accusatio…
▶ 1:16:29
McGuire says, well, he's going to go along with us now. Butler says, is he? McGuire says, yes. Butler says, well, what are you going to do with all these men? Suppose you get these 500,000 men in America. What are you going to do with them?…
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Don't you understand the setup has got to be changed a bit? Now, we have got him. We've got the president. He has got to have some more money. There is not any more money to give him. 80% of the money now is in the government bonds, and he …
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He will not necessarily have to explain it because we're going to help him out. Now, did it ever occur to you that the president is overworked? We might have to have an assistant president, somebody to take the blame. And if things don't wo…
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And I could see it. This is Butler saying it. They had that sympathy racket and they were going to have somebody take the patronage off the soldiers and take all the worries and details off of his shoulders. And then he will be like the pre…
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interested in heading it. I said, I'm interested in it, but I do not want to be heading it. I am very interested in it because, you know, Jerry, my interest is my one hobby is maintaining a democracy. If you get those 500,000 soldiers advoc…
▶ 1:20:51
But to kick him upstairs and install an assistant president with absolute powers, just why it was necessary to go through the trouble of installing an assistant president is unclear because the vice president was in office. In any event, it…
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Many businessmen felt that the New Deal was a recipe for disaster and that devaluing the dollar by printing more of it was like theft. In 1933, Major General Smedley Butler, who we've talked about a million times, was approached by a man ca…
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McGuire attempted to recruit Butler for several months, and this was done through the American Legion because we've done a lot of research into that whole thing. Butler blew the whistle and testified to Congress about the plan backed by ind…
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was also allegedly supported by J. Howard Pugh, P-E-W, of Sun Oil, a longtime friend and supporter of Robert W. Welch, who would later found the John Birch Society. Butler eventually told McGuire that if you get 500 soldiers advocating anyt…