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 in your last edit, can you explain why you deleted this entire paragraph, which is heavily footnoted?

Portions of Butler's story were corroborated by:   
- *Veterans of Foreign Wars commander James Van Zandt, who told reporters that he had been approached to lead the 500,000-man march on Washington.   
- *Captain Samuel Glazier—testifying under oath about plans of a plot to install a dictatorship in the United States.    
- *Reporter Paul Comly French, reporter for the Philadelphia Record and the New York Evening Post.