![]() Curtis LeMay, who made off-the-record critical remarks about President Kennedy for not bombing Cuba during the Cuba Missile Crisis. ![]() ![]() Other sources say Bailey got the idea for the book after interviewing Gen. The two writers also might have cast an eye on the 1933 right-wing plot to overthrow Franklin Roosevelt chronicled in Jules Archer’s The Plot to Seize the White House. Walker resigned his commission in 1961, lectured on anti-communism, and ran unsuccessfully for governor of Texas. Walker distributed John Birch Society literature to his troops accused former President Truman and Eleanor Roosevelt of being “pink ” and offended both President Eisenhower and Kennedy. LeMay and an Army ultra-conservative major general, Edwin A. Knebel and Bailey were supposedly inspired by militarist Gen. And like its predecessor, Pulitzer-Prize winning Advise and Consent by Allen Drury (1959, movie in 1962), Seven Days in May became a successful motion picture partly filmed in Washington (the screenplay was written by a young Rod Serling). Bailey II, it riffs on the paranoia stirred up by the nuclear arms race, McCarthyism, Gen. Published in 1962 by two Cowles Publications Washington Bureau journalists, Fletcher Knebel and Charles W. Scene from the 1964 film adaptation of Seven Days in MayĪmong political novels set in Washington, D.C., Seven Days in May holds a special place it imagines a right-wing military conspiracy to overthrow the president and the Constitution. ![]()
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