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brush

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1. There was also the American Liberty League of the '30s...

Reply to marmar (Original post)

Tue Dec 28, 2021, 11:26 AM

Dec 2021

an attempted fascost coup against FDR by prominent industrialist of the time which included a DuPont, Sloan of GM, Prescott Bush (yeah, those Bushes) and others. They tried to hire a famous Marine general to league an army of dissatisfied veterans.

Gen. Smedley Butler exposed them though.

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