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Article: Herbert Hoover: The 31st President, 1929-1933.(Books)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
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- February 27, 2009
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Byline: Christopher Hartman
In July of 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover ordered Gen. Douglas MacArthur to rout the so-called a*bonus armya*: US veterans who had come to Washington, D.C., seeking advance bonus payments.
During the night, MacArthur used tanks to drive the veterans and their families out of their makeshift settlements, after which infantry prodded them with bayonets, fired tear-gas canisters, and torched their shelters.
No episode, writes William Leuchtenburg in Herbert Hoover: The 31st President, 1929-1933, a*so fixed in the mind of Americans the conviction that Hoover was cold and ...