[DesertRhino]

Bullcrap. He saved the nation when approached to lead the bonus Army to overthrow Roosevelt. He turned them in. The same cabal waited a few more years and installed the national security state which Eisenhower warned us about, and which then went on to murder JFK.

Butler was a hero. Not to mention well deserved two medals of honor.

[robowombat]

Sorry the Bonus Army or what was left of it were dispersed by the US Army, Ft Meyer garrison troops including the 3rd Cavalry commanded by Col Geo Patton and the plans and ops officer was Maj Dwight Eisenhower. This ‘millionaires plot’ is nonsense and was nothing more than alcohol fueled blather at the Union League. Butler constantly pushed this from behind the scenes to keep his name in the papers. Smedley Butler is only the second senior Marine I have ever heard Marines to openly disparage to non-Marines. The other being Gen David Shoup.