Episode 1: Riot at the Gates (Again)
Rachel Maddow Presents: Déjà News
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Smedley Darlington Butler was the most decorated Marine in US history at the time. He claimed that a shadowy cabal of rich and powerful business interests had tried to recruit him to lead a coup against President Franklin D. Roosevelt. "The plan is outlying to me was to form an organization of veteran to use it a bluff or as a club," he said.
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