Almost as soon as he had been elected Governor of New York, Franklin Roosevelt was regarded as the favorite for the 1932 Democratic Presidential nomination.
The US economic situation continued to worsen throughout 1932, even as some of the other major economies were beginning to improve. When the US Army attacked protesting veterans in Washington, a change in administration became all but inevitable.
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Made me remember the battle of blair mountain.. there, also much of the rebels were old veterans…
Oh, there is also “harlan county wars” and battle of evarts… Just saw these while looking up for the war of the blair mountain in the internet..
The Bonus Army was such a wild event, MacArthur, Patton, and Eisenhower all involved. I wonder if the communist plot was a J. Edgar Hoover fever dream, seems like something he would have his fingers in.