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First Speaker

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7. The attack on the Bonus Marchers was the final nail in Hoover's coffin...

Reply to Buckeye_Democrat (Reply #3)

Sun Jan 15, 2017, 12:03 PM

Jan 2017

...though the Depression was surely enough in itself. The American people, to be fair to them, were horrified by the attack. They thought Hoover had lost his mind. Today? Fox "news" would praise it to the skies, and the sheeple would go along. As Orwell said famously: anything--anything at all--can be justified, if you feel that "your" side is benefiting.

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