[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.

[robowombat]

And this happened in August 1932, well before FDR, Gen Douglas MacArthur ignored Herbert Hoover's rather weak and two faced direction and put an end to the Bonus Army’s presence in DC. Hoover was beside himself because he knew the Dems would use the event against him in the election. The Dems provided enough votes to help the GOP floor managers to defeat the budget amendment to pay the veterans bonus’ early. Then sat back and enjoyed themselves.

[DesertRhino]

Sorry, the plot that approached Butler wasn’t drunk bar room talk. He was approached by serious men. He carefully had it evesdropped on and documented by a newspaperman who reported it.

As for MacArthur attacking the bonus marchers, President Hoover directly ordered him to stop after clearing one side of the river. MacArthur deliberately ignored his direct presidential orders from Hoover and continued his shameful attack. That kind of insubordination and grandiose BS is why he was banished to the Pacific in WWII, and eventually fired by Truman.