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Smedley Darlington Butler (July 30, 1881 – June 21, 1940) was a United States Marine Corps officer and writer. During his 34-year military career, he fought in the Philippine–American War, the Boxer Rebellion, the Mexican Revolution, World War I, and the Banana Wars.
The plot planned to install retired Major General Smedley Butler as dictator of the United States.. The Business Plot, also called the Wall Street Putsch [1] 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.
Retired Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler, alleged in November 1934 that a bond salesman named Gerald C. MacGuire told him that leaders in the League wanted Butler to lead 500,000 veterans in a coup to overthrow President Franklin Roosevelt. Butler and MacGuire were not active in the league and it rejected the allegations as nonsense.
The conspiracy underlying the plot of the film is loosely based on the Business Plot, a conspiracy to oust President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. De Niro's character, Gil Dillenbeck, is based on General Smedley Butler , who testified before the McCormack–Dickstein committee in 1934 regarding the conspiracy. [ 23 ]
Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Franklin D. Roosevelt Len Cariou: Into the Storm: Nominated 2010: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Bill Clinton: Dennis Quaid: The Special Relationship: Nominated 2011: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie John F. Kennedy Greg Kinnear: The Kennedys: Nominated 2016
Flight for Freedom (also known as Stand to Die) is a 1943 American drama film directed by Lothar Mendes and starring Rosalind Russell, Fred MacMurray and Herbert Marshall. Film historians and Earhart scholars consider Flight for Freedom an à clef version of Amelia Earhart 's life story, concentrating on the sensational aspects of her ...
FDR is a 2023 American miniseries. The three-part miniseries chronicles the life of Franklin D. Roosevelt , the thirty-second President of the United States and premiered on May 29, 2023, on History .
War Is a Racket is a speech and a 1935 short book by Smedley D. Butler, a retired United States Marine Corps major general and two-time Medal of Honor recipient. [2] [3] Based on his career military experience, Butler discusses how business interests commercially benefit from warfare.