More on Smedley Butler and the Business Coup. They’ve tried before.
Also implicated in the plot was Al Smith, former New York governor and 1928 Democratic presidential nominee, as well as Prescott Bush, a banker, grandfather of G.W. Bush.
https://timeline.com/business-plot-overthrow-fdr-9a59a012c32a
Smedley Butler was certainly an interesting figure....he seemed to be against all of the insiders...