In 1933, Major General Smedley D. Butler, USMC, who had won the Congressional Medal of Honor twice, was approached by men representing a cabal of multi-millionaire industrialists and bankers.  They hated President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and they saw the New Deal as a threat to their interests. Among other things, FDR had announced that the … Continue reading SMEDLEY BUTLER AND THE BUSINESS PLOT: WAR IS A RACKET