Mayor ends ‘Occupy Atlanta’ when Second Amendment exercised with First

Eisenhower was an aide to MacArthur at the time, and he believed it was wrong for Army’s highest-ranking officer to lead an action against fellow American war veterans. He wasn’t directly involved in the action itself, IIRC.

Or, so he stated in his biography.

He did however write the official Army incident report which endorsed MacArthur’s conduct during the whole affair.

Good point. My mistake. FDR was elected in 1932 and as Wikipedia says: "was inaugurated March 4, 1933 (32 days after Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany)"

WWFDRHD? What would FDR have done? The Wikipedia entry for "Bonus Army" says:

A second, smaller Bonus March in 1933 at the start of the Roosevelt Administration was defused with promises instead of military action. In 1936, Congress overrode President Franklin D. Roosevelt's veto to pay the veterans their bonus years early.

The Bonus Army was a movement of whiners and grifters. In its "gimme" Populism was genesis of the modern US welfare state. Most good soldiers and decent people opposed it. Excepting Smedley Butler.

Butler, being the most respected military hero of that time, was the nexus of multiple attempts to take over the Bonus Marchers and the populist political might of veterans at the time and use them for the greater good of the rising political desirable fad of Fascism. Under Fascism it is very important to pick the winning side. The social and ascendant political dynamics of the time were all Pro-Fascism. Whose Fascism would win?

FDR, the shrewd codger played his cards right on this one. HIS brand of Fascism won. How did he pull it off? Providential timing number one. The second is, within the framework of Providential timing FDR did something rather rare for him: he followed the potent principle of doing and saying as little as possible, and maneuvering to have the major forces competing for the cat-bird seat of populist Fascism run up against each other, and by that he established more political power to himself than anything else in his early years of office.

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