(actual-attempt-of-fascist-takeover-of-USA)-(1973

202 The Plot to Seize the White House
White House" represented the most bitter animosity big business had ever
manifested toward any President in American history.
Their hate campaign was echoed by the vast majority of newspapers,
like the Hearst press, which had originally supported the President, then
denounced him as a dictator. Roosevelt had been compelled to turn to
"fireside chats" over the radio in order to communicate with the American
people over the heads of the press lords.
In that emotional climate it was not at all surprising that some
elements of big business should have sought to emulate their counterparts in
Germany and Italy, supporting a Fascist putsch to take over the government
and run it under a dictator on behalf of America's bankers and industrialists.
That it did not happen here could be credited largely to the patriotism
and determination of one courageous American-Major General Smedley
Darlington Butler.