My regulars know how much I like history and historic events……I look for history that is not common knowledge……
There some points in history that historians prefer to ignore….but they were events that shape our country whether we like the events or not…..and this is one of those forgotten points.
85 years ago this year FDR was inaugurated and his policies to turn the country around…..his was an ambitious plan for the country….
On March 4, 1933, at the height of the Great Depression, Franklin Delano Roosevelt is inaugurated as the 32nd president of the United States. In his famous inaugural address, delivered outside the east wing of the U.S. Capitol, Roosevelt outlined his “New Deal”–an expansion of the federal government as an instrument of employment opportunity and welfare–and told Americans that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” Although it was a rainy day in Washington, and gusts of rain blew over Roosevelt as he spoke, he delivered a speech that radiated optimism and competence, and a broad majority of Americans united behind their new president and his radical economic proposals to lead the nation out of the Great Depression.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/fdr-inaugurated
To say that all Americans were on the side of change would be just plain wrong……as a matter of fact there was a planned coup in 1933 and a very familiar family name was part of this operation…..the elder Bush….not GHW but rather Prescott…..
To help you get your head around this…..a short video…..
Then in 1934 the sh*t hit the fan…….
I’m back from the land of heather and thistles, not to mention wee drams and lukewarm ale, but on my way out a friend at the BBC alerted me to this, a not-to-miss program on the BBC this morning, accessible over the next several days by internet. It’s the story of the Plot Against America. I don’t mean the Philip Roth novel, nor even the Sinclair Lewis book, It Can’t Happen Here, but rather the historical events upon which these two works of fiction were based.
In November 1934, federal investigators uncovered an amazing plot involving some two dozen senior businessmen, a good many of them Wall Street financiers, to topple the government of the United States and install a fascist dictatorship. Roth’s novel is developed from several strands of this factual account; he assumed the plot is actually carried out, whereas in fact an alert FDR shut it down but stopped short of retaliatory measures against the plotters. A key element of the plot involved a retired prominent general who was to have raised a private army of 500,000 men from unemployed veterans and who blew the whistle when he learned more of what the plot entailed. The plot was heavily funded and well developed and had strong links with fascist forces abroad. A story in the New York Times and several other newspapers reported on it, and a special Congressional committee was created to conduct an investigation. The records of this committee were scrubbed and sealed away in the National Archives, where they have only recently been made available.
https://harpers.org/blog/2007/07/1934-the-plot-against-america/
Ever notice the history that academics have forgotten?
Well the old professor tries to bring the stuff to light whenever he can…..
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There were similar rumblings in Britain during the 1930s. Inspired by the Duke of Windsor’s love for the Nazis, and the popularity of The British Union of Fascists. It is hinted at in the film and book, ‘The Remains of The Day’, with many aristocrats in England keen to overthrow the system of democracy that existed.
Best wishes, Pete.
Funny that the US tries as many ways to avoid this as possible…of course if is a left wing conspiracy…everything their little minds cannot comprehend is a letf wing conspiracy….chuq
The academics have not intentionally covered up any history that glorifies the left wing; just that part of history that exposes them — FDR was called “Socialist” by one mouthy little cub reporter and Roosevelt snapped back at him, “I do not answer questions for a wet-behind-the-ears smart-aleck” or something of that nature.,
Yeah that explains the Bush attempt….something FDR said to a reporter….looking for excuses as most conservs do….chuq
Ha! Ha! Ha! We look for excuses and the Liberals? There is no excuse for most of them! LOL
Everybody looks for excuses….but the Right cannot remember that their actions have an equal reaction….chuq
An equal reaction that always turns out to be the best for everybody.
Partisan bickering does no good but makes the theatrics all that much better….chuq
Perhaps the world would have taken a better turn if the coup was successful? He didn’t get the US out of the Depression until the war – which he had to force Japan into starting.
So fascism would have been more better than what FDR had offered? Really? chuq
What are you talking about? Fascism? We were in no threat, that was Europe’s fear. Do you think Japan bombed Pearl because they wanted to make us Fascist?
Okay a digression…the post was about what has been called the “Business Plot”….This had little to do with Japan or the Nazis…..chuq
True – we got off track.
Japan bombed Pearl to try and cripple the Navy so they could expand their influence…..I’m tired coffee is needed…..
Agreed!!
Thank you for another great piece of information, Chuq! This was new to me, but here in Germany i am not wondering about. 😉 Best wishes for the weekend. Michael
There is always American history that has been swept under a rug….I hope you have a great weekend….chuq