At his own request, Butler retired from active duty soon thereafter.Ībout six months later, he stood before a sea of exasperated World War 1 veterans which surrounded Washington DC’s Capitol Hill. His irritation increased when he was threatened with a court-martial due to an uncomplimentary comment regarding Italian dictator Benito Mussolini. But his candid comments regarding military misapplication had won him many political enemies, including President Hoover, and he was consequently denied the appointment. Neville died unexpectedly, it was widely assumed that the responsibility would pass to the most senior major general on the active list, General Smedley Butler. In July 1930, when the Commandant of the Marine Corps Wendell C. Despite his intrepid leadership in multiple conflicts, Smedley “the Fighting Quaker” Butler gradually cultivated some resentment towards the frequent misuse of the military as a corporate cudgel. During his service he was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal of both the Army and the Navy he was one of only twenty people in history to receive the Marine Corps Brevet Medal and he was one of only a handful of men to twice receive the Congressional Medal of Honor.
General Smedley Darlington Butler’s long military career was packed with conspicuous gallantry, and owing to his bravery and brilliance he was highly respected throughout the ranks. It was the conspirators’ earnest hope that their army of 500,000 Great War veterans, under the leadership of General Butler, could overpower the US’ feeble peacetime military and reconstitute the government as a more economical fascist dictatorship. To assist them in their diabolical scheme, the resourceful plotters recruited the assistance of Major General Smedley Darlington Butler, a venerated, highly decorated, and considerably jaded former Marine. As men of action, the well-financed New York group sought to eliminate what they reasoned to be the crux of the catastrophe: the United States government. As a consequence of the Great Depression, the countryside was littered with unemployed, and the world’s wealthy were watching as their fortunes deflated and their investments evaporated. In the early 1930s, a secret collection of prosperous men are said to have assembled in New York City to discuss the dissolution of America’s democracy.
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