editor’s note: fascinating! and a couple new rabbit holes to explore…..a little info on Butler from Wikipedia: “The Business Plot was an alleged political conspiracy in 1933 in the United States. Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler claimed that wealthy businessmen were plotting to create a fascist veterans’ organization with Butler as its leader and use it in a coup d’état to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt. In 1934, Butler testified before the United States House of Representatives Special Committee on Un-American Activities (the “McCormack-Dickstein Committee”) on these claims.[1] No one was prosecuted. At the time of the incidents, news media dismissed the plot, with a New York Times editorial characterizing it as a “gigantic hoax”‘
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