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THE
PLOT
TO SEIZE
THE
WHITE HOUSE
Jules Archer
Update XI: (2007/02/17) - The new publication has become available on Amazon.com:
The Plot To Seize The White House:
The Shocking True Story of the Conspiracy to Overthrow FDR
Update X: (2006/11/01) - Here's the Skyhorse catalog copy I've received on the new publication:
THE PLOT TO SEIZE THE WHITE HOUSE
How Corporations Sought to Install the First American Dictator
Jules Archer
In 1933, at the height of the Depression, a confederation of wealthy
industrialists and political reactionaries looked to fascism for
deliverance from their woes. They had lost their fortunes on Wall Street
and their power structure of political favor in Washington. They thought
they stood to lose everything if they condescended to allow President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt to enact the New Deal and the silver standard.
And they would stop at next to nothing in order to continue their grip on
the levers of America’s most powerful institutions. In THE PLOT TO SEIZE
THE WHITE HOUSE, veteran author Jules Archer details tells this sordid,
secret history of the most shocking act of sedition and intrigue since
workmen drained the swamps to lay the foundation for Washington D.C.
The plotters studied Mussolini’s rise to power on the shoulders of
nationalistic veterans’ groups, and devised a strategy to subvert or
replace the leadership of the American Legion. If that failed, they would
pull Legion’s funding and create their own. This would be followed by a
call to law-and-order, local chapters deputized to break strikes and
crush opposition demonstrations, and a brazen military organization
arrayed against FDR and the U.S. Army. It would be a paramilitary police
force beholden only to the party leaders; a fifth column: the American
equivalent of Hitler’s Brown Shirts. Under the pretext of helping the
ailing FDR with his duties, they would pressure him to appoint a
strong-man dictator. They were linked to nationalist organizations with
patriotic-sounding names, anti-Semitic groups, and the Ku Klux Klan. And
they were led and bankrolled to the tune of millions of dollars by a
constellation of industrialists and financiers whose inclusion is still
shocking even today.
Their selection for dictator was tough-talking two-time Medal of Honor
recipient and Marine Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, a
thirty-five year veteran of global U.S. gunboat diplomacy who was once a
Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania. He was also a
patriot, and having misplaced their trust in him, Butler broke the news
through trusted journalists and friends on Capitol Hill. The
McCormack-Dickstein Committee took testimony, some of which was under
seal and is revealed only here. There were no consequences for the
instigators however. The entire affair was swept under the rug, left out
of history books, and conveniently forgotten, until the publication of
THE PLOT TO SEIZE THE WHITE HOUSE.
Born in New York City, JULES ARCHER is a graduate of City College of New
York. During World War II he served four years in the Pacific with the
Army Air Corps and was also a freelance correspondent by order of General
MacArthur. He is the author of many books on political events and
personalities, including Mao Tse-tung; The Dictators; Hawks, Doves, and
the Eagle; The Extremists; and Chou En-lai.
$ TK PAPERBACK
$ TK IN CANADA
ISBN TK
256 PAGES
5½ X 8¼
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SKYHORSE
I located and purchased a copy of this 1973 first and only printing of this book. It cost me hundreds
of dollars. Since it is rare and unavailable, and since it documents an essential episode in American
history, I have endeavored to digitize in HTML and
Word.
I have run across a rumour or two stating that there are interests who would have this book suppressed.
Therefore, I implore any of you who come across this posting to grab a copy of the HTML or Word document
or both and stash it for safekeeping and post it yourself if you have a forum. Because I am in tinfoil hat mode
here, I wish to see a viral replication of this book so that these unseen forces will be frustrated. And,
yes, because I am in tinfoil hat mode I'm expecting some trouble. I will be more than happy to be wrong
about that. I had heard that at least one other indie publisher re-published this book, but they no
longer list it, either.
It is my and your public duty to make sure that the American people see just how close the United States
came to becoming a Fascist state. It is also instructive to note the relationships between the power
principals of that time (1933-34), and note how little things have changed. Government, media, banks,
big business, and the military - it is a familiar tale. Vigilance is more important than ever.
READ THIS BOOK.
The final line of the book:
"If we remember Major General Smedley Darlington Butler for nothing else,
we owe him an eternal debt of gratitude for spurning the chance to become
dictator of the United States-and for making damned sure no one else did
either."
- "The Plot To Seize The White House" by Jules Archer, 1973
A quote from inside, telling us all that nothing much has changed, has it?:
"You know, the American people will swallow that. We have got the
newspapers. We will start a campaign that the President's health is
failing. Everybody can tell that by looking at him, and the dumb American
people will fall for it in a second."
- bond salesman Gerald C. MacGuire to Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, 1934
(Note: Misspellings and errors, while very few, are mine. I retained some of the odder
spellings and hyphenations made by the author as they seem to be ubiquitous to age before the
word processor and its homogenizing spell- and sytax-checkers. :) Also, while italics in the
Word version of the book are faithfully reproduced,
that will be an ongoing project in the
HTML version. And finally, excerpts of letters, speeches,
and dialogue are represented, in the book and Word version,
by an indented and slightly smaller font.
Here they are simply in boldface.
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