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A not-to-miss program on the BBC this morning... The Congressional committee kept the names of many of the participants under wraps and no criminal action was ever brought against them. But a few names have leaked out. And one is Prescott Bush, the grandfather of the incumbent president. Prescott Bush was of course deep into the business of the Hamburg-America Lines, and had tight relations throughout this period with the new Government that had come to power in Germany a year earlier under Chancellor Aldoph Hitler. It appears that Bush was to have formed a key liaison for the group with the new German government.
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Walter Waters, a Portland resident who served in France during the First World War… and 400 other veterans from Portland traveled by train in May 1932 to Washington D.C., with plans to ask the federal government to pay them their bonuses early. The group became known as the Bonus Army… Waters' charismatic personality attracted widespread media attention and soon made him the face of a national news story… articles about Walters convinced thousands of others to join… "the right person at the right place at the right time,"… After two months, with the Bonus Army's efforts sputtering, President Herbert Hoover cracked down on the camp. He sent in the military on July 28 and the removal soon became violent, as clashes broke out between the soldiers and the veterans.
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