The Bonus Army

President hoover ordered the secretary of war to drive the bonusers out. This led to a confrontation in which the po s fired on the protesters and killed two of them. The wall street industrialists still hoped to use the veterans against president f d r. They just needed to find a leader for all the disgruntled veterans. And who did they approach? A man named smedley darlington butler. He was born in 18 81, and he was 52 years old in 19 33.