In 1932, President Hoover set the military on a ragtag band of veterans protesting peacefully. The images horrified the nation and killed his chances for reelection.
further escalating his own Battle of Washington, he would do well to recall what happened the last time a president ordered troops to clear Pennsylvania Avenue.Great Depression, was one of the unluckiest men to occupy the Oval Office. Intelligent, competent, self-effacing to a fault, he
Most of the Army settled in Anacostia Flats, a muddy area across the Anacostia River south of the 11th Street Bridge. There they erected a sprawling network of camps—which they of course called Hoovervilles—to serve as their base to lobby Congress and make their presence known around the capital. A smaller group of veteransnear the White House in a group of abandoned buildings on government property on Pennsylvania Avenue near Third Street.
Former war veterans hold their hands up after the Washington, D.C. police fired into them to quell disorder on Pennsylvania Avenue on July 28, 1932. | AP Photogot on Hoover’s nerves, a living testament to his failure to alleviate the Depression.
“Damned lie,” Waters raged. “Every man is a veteran. We examined the papers of everyone.” No matter: The then largely conservative American press trumpeted Hoover’s hollow, martial words. Waters’ protest was ignored.For weeks his men at nearby Fort Myers had undergone anti-riot training for just such a confrontation.on the scene that afternoon,
An army enlisted man sets fire to one of the few huts at Camp Marks, Anacostia, that were spared by the flames that consumed most of the Bonus Expeditionary Forces encampment on July 29, 1932. | AP PhotoTo be sure, Trump’s Battle of Washington is quite distinct from the first one.
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