![]() ![]() He was trying to persuade Butler to come to the next Legion convention, in Chicago, to give a speech denouncing President Franklin Delano Roosevelt-specifically his recent decision to take the dollar off the gold standard. MacGuire, represented himself as a member of the American Legion, a veterans’ organization founded at the end of the Great War. ![]() Two mammoth red satin umbrellas, given to Butler by villagers on his last overseas mission, to China, swayed gently overhead atop their fifteen-foot poles. The visitor was sitting in the vaulted main hallway the Butlers used as a living room, his cannonball-shaped head framed by the retired general’s old command flags, medals, swords, and assorted tropical bric-a-brac. Smedley Butler sized up the one doing all the talking-the bond salesman in the tailored suit. ![]() This image is in the public domain via WikiCommons. A picture of a double medal of honor recipient Smedley Butler. ![]()
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