# Gerald MacGuire > [!note] Stub — fill out Wall Street bond salesman who, in 1933–34, repeatedly approached Maj. Gen. [[Smedley Butler]] to recruit him to lead an alleged coup against Franklin Roosevelt — the [[Business Plot]] — to force the U.S. back onto the gold standard. Butler blew the whistle; the [[McCormack-Dickstein Committee]] found the plot credible. MacGuire was linked to the [[American Liberty League]] milieu. Expand.