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OxQQme

(2,550 posts) Mon Oct 31, 2016, 09:01 PM Oct 2016

FDR's first Fireside Chat

http://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/videos/fdr-delivers-first-fireside-chat

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FDR's first Fireside Chat (Original Post) OxQQme Oct 2016 OP

FDR meant business. Wall Street and the Bushes didn't try to overthrow him for nothing. forest444 Oct 2016 #1

forest444

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1. FDR meant business. Wall Street and the Bushes didn't try to overthrow him for nothing.

Reply to OxQQme (Original post)

Mon Oct 31, 2016, 10:51 PM

Oct 2016

Had the heroic Smedley Butler not blown the whistle on the 1934 coup attempt, it might have succeeded - and God help us if it had.

That in a sense is what Trump represents today: a coup attempt by other means, done on behalf of the most deplorable - and un-American - elements in our society.

Thank you for that, OxQQme. It's as timely know as it ever was.

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