it is directly connected to macguire, the guy recruiting butler, because his boss grayson m.p.nk the linchpin of this thing, is the treasurer of the liberty league. what the liberty league was was a consortium of extremely wealthy capitalist industrialists who hated franklin roosevelt and had the involvement of two former presidential candidates who are anti-new deal democrats. basically, there public facing goal -- and they were open about this -- was to dismantle the new deal, which fdr was trying to use to save americans, to put millions of americans back to work and save americans from the depression. what we don't know is how far maybe the more senior members of the liberty league, like the duponts, had gotten the planning. the reason while we don't know is because the congressional committee that butler testified in front of, which is headed by john w maccormack who goes on to become a longtime speaker of the house, a democrat of new york, day cut their investigation short. the only people who testify are butler, a newspaper reporter butler enlisted as an independent inve