The Plots Against the President (30 page)

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. “Will Rogers Claps Hands for the President's Speech.” March 14, 1933.

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. “Zangara Planned Attack All Alone.” February 17, 1933.

Ortiz, Stephen R. “Rethinking the Bonus March: Federal Bonus Policy, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Origins of a Protest Movement.”
Journal of Policy History
18, no. 3 (2006).

Parker, Richard. “The Crisis Last Time.
New York Times
. November 9, 2008.

Politics Daily
. October 2009.

Reilly, Michael F. “I Guarded FDR.” As told to William J. Slocum.
Saturday Evening Post
, September 7, 14, 21, 28, and October 5, 1946.

Rogers, Will.
New York Times,
March 6, 1933.

Russell, Francis. “How I Changed My Mind About the Sacco-Vanzetti Case.”
Antioch Review
25, no. 4 (Winter 1965–66).

Shappee, Nathan D. “Zangara's Attempted Assassination of Franklin D. Roosevelt.”
Florida Historical Quarterly
37, no. 2. (October 1958): 101–10.

Sherrill, Robert. “Du Pont.”
New York Times
, December 15, 1974.

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. “No More Eating Rats.”
New York Times
, December 15, 1974.

Smith, Jean Edward. “How F.D.R. Made the Presidency Matter.”
New York Times
, January 16, 2009.

Spivak, John. “Wall Street's Fascist Conspiracy.”
New Masses
, http://coat.ncf.ca/our_magazine/links/53/spivak-NewMasses.pdf.

Stowell, Ellery C. “The General Butler Incident.”
American Journal of International Law
, April 1931.

Sullivan, Mark. “Roosevelt Declared Headed Farther Left.”
Los Angeles Times
, April 28, 1935.

Theoharis, Athan G. “The FBI's Stretching of Presidential Directives, 1936–1953.”
Political Science Quarterly
91, no. 4. (Winter 1976–77).

Nation
. March 8, 1933.

Time
. April 3, 1933.

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. “DEMOCRATS: Incredible Kingfish.” October 3, 1932.

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. March 13, 1933.

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. “Plot Without Plotters.” December 3, 1934.

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. “The Presidency: Wanted: A Poem.” October 3, 1932.

Wall Street Journal
. March 13, 1933.

Washington Post
. February 18, 1935. “Probers Veiling Fascist Plot in U.S. Russian Press Charges.”

Washington Times
. November 21, 1934.

Winn, Marcia. “Du Ponts Give In; Decide to See Wedding.”
Chicago Daily Tribune
, June 30, 1937.

Government Documents

F.B.I. files were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act on the following individuals: Smedley Darlington Butler; Charles E. Coughlin; Huey Long; and Giuseppe Zangara. The file on the assassination attempt on Franklin D. Roosevelt was also obtained.

U.S. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities, Investigation of Nazi Propaganda Activities and Investigation of Certain Other Propaganda Activities. 74th Cong. 1st sess., Report no. 153. February 1935.

U.S. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities, Investigation of Nazi Propaganda Activities and Investigation of Certain Other Propaganda Activities.
Public Hearings Report of HUAC.
73rd Cong., 2nd sess., December 29, 1934.

U.S. Congress. House. Special Committee on Un-American Activities, Investigation of Nazi Propaganda Activities and Investigation of Certain Other Propaganda Activities.
Public Statement on Preliminary Findings of HUAC.
73rd Cong., 2nd sess., November 24, 1934.

U.S. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means.
Payment of Adjusted-Compensation Certificates.
72nd Congress, 2nd sess., 382–83. 73rd Cong., 2nd sess. November 1934.

Manuscript Collections and Individual Papers

America First Committee. Hoover Institution. Stanford University, California.

American Liberty League. Hoover Institution. Stanford University, California.

American Legion. Hoover Institution. Stanford University, California.

Raymond Moley Collection. Hoover Institution. Stanford University, California.

John W. McCormack. Oral History Interview. March 30, 1977. Ethel G. Phillips Collection. John F. Kennedy Presidential Library, Boston, Massachusetts.

A Note on the Author

Sally Denton is the author of
The Pink Lady
,
Passion and Principle
,
Faith and Betrayal
,
American Massacre
,
The Bluegrass Conspiracy
, and, with Roger Morris,
The Money and the Power
. She has been the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, two Western Heritage awards, a Lannan Literary Grant, and has been inducted into the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. Her writing has appeared in the
New York Times
, the
Washington Post
, and
American Heritage
.

By the Same Author

The Pink Lady

Passion and Principle

Faith and Betrayal

American Massacre

The Money and the Power
(with Roger Morris)

The Bluegrass Conspiracy

Copyright © 2012 by Sally Denton
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