Business Plot event
also: Wall Street plot, the plot, the affair
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Gerald MacGuireperson · 4Smedley Butlerperson · 4Franklin D. Rooseveltperson · 3Antony Suttonperson · 2American Legionorganization · 2Wall Streetplace · 2Grayson M.-P. Murphy & Co.organization · 1McCormack-Dickstein Committeeorganization · 1Grayson M.P. Murphyperson · 11,000 Americansbook · 1
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Smedley Butler exposed
Business Plot 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
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
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▶ 1:08:20
And most of us have been led to believe that what went on was a potential overthrow of FDR. And that's why people have come away with the feeling that FDR potentially was one of the good guys and they were trying to get rid of him. So I wan…
▶ 1:09:48
And it was going to be used to shield the president and vice president. It was never an actual overthrow of the government. It was basically creating a separate entity. So let me go into this just a little bit. The central figure in the plo…
▶ 1:10:15
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 …
▶ 1:11:15
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…
▶ 1:15:28
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…
▶ 1:20:22
We do not want that. We want to ease up on the president. And Butler says, yes, and then you will put somebody in there you can run. Is that the idea? The president will go around and christen babies and dedicate bridges and kiss children? …
▶ 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…
▶ 1:21:49
Bolshevik scare, and then they're going to use that as the excuse to basically transform our own country. Now, there's additional information in here that they find a guy that was an army guy on a base over in Maryland where people approach…
▶ 1:22:17
housing for 500 troops, 500,000 troops. And what would be the logistical capability of that? So this was not a insignificant event. There was a lot of planning that went into this. There was a lot of logistical support that went into this. …
▶ 1:22:46
and where he was located in Maryland, if that could be set up there. So it's a much deeper story. And Antony Sutton is the only one that I know of that has actually went back and got the testimony from this particular period of time and loo…