Great moments in Republican History: Hoover orders troops to attack Veterans

[Onlooker]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWvCCxOUsM8

[SpiralHawk]

1. Sooooo republicon

To talk up patriotism and wave flags meaninglessly, then totally screw over the actual Americans who are serving, or who served...sooo republicon.

[Brother Buzz]

2. The orders of the president must be obeyed and....

MacArthur and Eisenhower stepped up to save the day. Republican values at work.

Side note: One veteran said, "I came to Washington to get my bonus, and I'm gonna wait for it till I get it if I have to wait till 1945". President Roosevelt learned something from this dark period and signed the GI Bill of Rights into law in 1944.

[Gaedel]

3. So the myth goes

1. Eisenhower was a low level officer at the time.

2. Hoover, reluctantly, ordered MacArthur to clear the marchers off of Capitol Hill only after the DC commissioners requested US Army assistance to the DC police. For all that he might be blamed for the depression, Herbert Hoover was truly one of the great humanitarians of the 20th century.

3. After ordering MacArthur to clear the bonus marchers off of Capitol Hill, Hoover sent a second message telling MacArthur to stop at the Anacostia River and not to interfere with the camps set up by the bonus marchers on Anacostia Flats.

4. Since MacArthur was at the site of the disturbance, the Hoover order to stop was sent to the War Dept and received by George Van Horn Moseley, the assistant in the CoS office. Moseley (later revealed to be an Anti-Semite and fascist) deliberately made sure that MacArthur did not receive Hoover's orders to stop.

Geoffrey Perret, "Old Soldiers Never Die: The Life of Douglas MacArthur"

[Onlooker]

4. What's your point?

Are you defending Hoover because he might have "reluctant" to order MacArthur to clear the marchers and tried to get a message to him to have him slow down. Hoover never fired or, as far as I know, punished George Van Horn Moseley for failing to get the orders to MacArthur. Setting troops against the Bonus Army is one of Hoover's shames.