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The BBC has a program about President Bush's grandfather's involvement in a 1933 plot to overthrow President Franklin D. Roosevelt. The program is called "The Whitehouse Coup". Click here to listen to it. (When you get to the BBC page, click on the button "listen to this programme in full". Program begins about 30 seconds after you click the button. Program is 30 min long.)

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Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by right-wing American businessmen
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The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.


Mike Thomson investigates why so little is known about this biggest ever peacetime threat to American democracy.