![]() 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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