Who did Smedley Butler allege was planning to overthrow?
President Theodore Roosevelt
President Franklin D. Roosevelt
President Harry S. Truman
President Woodrow Wilson
Answer
President Franklin D. Roosevelt was accused by decorated Marine Corps Major General Smedley Butler of plotting a potential military coup d'etat to overthrow his administration in 1933. Butler testified before the United States House of Representatives Special Committee on Un-American Activities, also known as the McCormack-Dickstein Committee, regarding a clandestine scheme involving wealthy businessmen and industrialists to establish a fascist government in the United States.
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