Business Plot
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business-plot-171-11466615
title:
Business Plot
text:
The Business Plot, also called the Wall Street Putsch and the White House Putsch, was a political conspiracy in 1933, in the United States, to overthrow the government of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and install Smedley Butler as dictator. Butler, a retired Marine Corps major general, testified under oath that wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a fascist veterans' organization with him as its leader and use it in a coup d'état to overthrow Roosevelt. In 1934, Butler testified under o
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A 1933 plan to overthrow the U.S. government
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Business_Plot
date created:
2005-06-28T14:12:31Z
date modified:
2024-09-01T16:37:10Z
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