The Wall Street Millionaires Who Wanted To Overthrow The President

The story of <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/01/13/fdr-roosevelt-coup-business-plot/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Wall Street millionaires</a> trying to overthrow the President begins with something we all know and love: Capitalism. I’m not joking. The election of <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/franklin-d-roosevelt/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Franklin D. Roosevelt</a> or FDR (D-New York) was upsetting for conservative businessmen. “There was just this sense he was upsetting the status quo,” said Sally Denton in <a href="https://www.npr.org/2012/02/12/145472726/when-the-bankers-plotted-to-overthrow-fdr#:~:text=Critics%20on%20the%20right%20worried,didn%27t%20stop%20at%20talk." rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">NPR</a>. “There were suggestions that capitalism was not working, that democracy was not working.” Anyway, let’s discuss the story of how Wall Street millionaires tried to organize a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coup_d%27%C3%A9tat#:~:text=The%20term%20comes%20from%20French,or%20%27blow%20of%20state%27." rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">coup d’etat</a> and tried to overthrow <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/franklin-d-roosevelt/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">President Franklin D. Roosevelt</a>… <h1>It Started With A Protest In Washington, D.C…</h1> You’ll be surprised to learn the events of July 17, 1932, were remarkably similar to <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trump-lit-that-fire-of-capitol-insurrection-jan-6-committee-report-says" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Donald Trump’s January 6 Insurrection</a>…. Thousands of <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/01/13/fdr-roosevelt-coup-business-plot/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">World War One veterans</a> converged on the capital, set up camps, and demanded immediate payment of bonuses. And after an appearance from Marine <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/01/13/fdr-roosevelt-coup-business-plot/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Gen. Smedley Butler</a>, the protesters felt emboldened in their decision to protest the government. After all, Butler was a decorated General who had received the Medal of Honor twice. <a href="https://medium.com/lessons-from-history/the-wall-street-millionaires-who-wanted-to-overthrow-the-president-5e572291301b">Click Here</a>