A Family Tradition

Authoritarian government and the subversion of everything America stands for appears to be a familiar goal for the Bush family. From the description of an episode a BBC investigative reporting series Document:

Document uncovers details of a planned coup in the USA in 1933 by a group of right-wing American businessmen The coup was aimed at toppling President Franklin D Roosevelt with the help of half-a-million war veterans. The plotters, who were alleged to involve some of the most famous families in America, (owners of Heinz, Birds Eye, Goodtea, Maxwell Hse & George Bush’s Grandfather, Prescott) believed that their country should adopt the policies of Hitler and Mussolini to beat the great depression.

Mike Thomson investigates why so little is known about this biggest ever peacetime threat to American democracy.

Biggest, that is, until Prescott's grandson took office.

You can listen to the story online here.