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One of the bankers was Prescott Bush, later senator from Connecticut, father of President G. W. H. Bush, and grandfather of President G. W. Bush. The whistleblower was Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler.Big ThinkRemembering when bankers tried to overthrow FDR and install a fascist dictator Matt Davis
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Mike Norman considers the following as important: FDR, US history
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Remembering when bankers tried to overthrow FDR and install a fascist dictator
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