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• 18 Dec 14
  

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• 12 Dec 12
  

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  The Business Plot was an alleged political conspiracy in 1933. Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler claimed that wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a fascist veterans' organization and use it in a coup d'état to overthrow United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, with Butler as leader of that organization. In 1934, Butler testified to the Special Committee on Un-American Activities Congressional committee (the "McCormack-Dickstein Committee") on these claims.[1] In the opinion of the committee, these allegations were credible.[2] No one was prosecuted.
  
  While historians have questioned whether or not a coup was actually close to execution, most agree that some sort of "wild scheme" was contemplated and discussed

• 09 Nov 10
  

  Brian Torpey

  The Business Plot (also the Plot Against FDR and the White House Putsch) was an alleged political conspiracy in 1933. Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler claimed that wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a fascist veterans' organizati

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• 11 Oct 10
  

  Patrick Helmes

  In 1933 The Heads of Chase Bank, GM, Goodyear, Standard Oil, the DuPont family, and Senator Prescott Bush Tried To Lead a Military Coup Against President FDR & Install a Fascist Dictatorship in the United States

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• 30 Aug 09
  

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• 18 Aug 09
  

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• 10 Jun 08
  

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• 16 May 08
  

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• 17 Apr 08
  

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• 27 Mar 08
  

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• 01 Mar 08
  

  ken meece

  The Business Plot, the Plot Against FDR, or the White House Putsch, was a political conspiracy involving several wealthy businessmen to overthrow the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933.

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• 31 Jul 07
  

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  • The Business Plot, The Plot Against FDR, or The White House Putsch, was an uncovered conspiracy involving several wealthy businessmen to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933.
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