Reply #4: world history ok along with US too ? [View All]

With fascism on the march it would be a good thing to discuss "The Plot to Sieze the White House" by Jules Archer
http://www.eclectica.org/v1n1/reviews/wharton_plot.html

Looks like GW Bush's family had a stake in this original coup d'etat. Not any commies or pinkos. Just a Seven Days in May rightwingnut plot. If it weren't for a guy USMC Gen Smedley D. Butler, we'd have lost Roosevelt as president. Today they don't have to use guns, just rigged elections !


""The conspirators included: John Davis (former Democratic presidential
candidate in 1924), Al Smith, mayor of New York, J.P. Morgan, heir to the
Singer empire, Chairman of GM,
Prescott Bush and George Herbert Walker,
members of the American Liberty League (whose membership list is partially
given in the sources), General Douglas MacArthur (many of the
ultra-rightists wanted MacArthur as the "man on a white horse" to rally the
WWI vets and bonus marchers but he was so hated by the vets due to his
killing and wounding of veterans in the bonus marches of 1933 --against the
orders of Hoover his commander in chief). What is also interesting is that
the plans for how the veterans would be used to take and hold the White
House included: strikebreaking; acts of sabotage to create conditions for
martial law and suppressions of civil liberties; enforcers against people of
conscience; etc--sound familiar?""
from
http://archives.econ.utah.edu/archives/a-list/2003w28/msg00014.htm

For openers, try the video from the History Channel called "The Plot to
> Overthrow FDR" available for $19.95 and I urge all teachers and activists
to
> get your own copy and circulate or show it. Next, there is "The Plot to
> Seize the White House", now out of print but still available, by Jules
> Archer. From there, you can get sources of contemporary (at the time)
> sources about the nautre of the Congressional investigation, allegations,
> etc. From some of the notes left by Henry Morgenthau there is even more
> detail on the plot.