Ep 4 – All Smedleys Considered
Let's Start a Coup!
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Smidley's Source About the Hit and Run
The Italian Foreign Office conceded that Vanderbilt and Mussolini spent time together in 1926, but insisted that no such car ride ever took place. The Italian government protested, calling the anecdote insolent, irrediculous. Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State, Henry Stimson, issued a formal apology to Mussolini.
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