<P> Police Superintendent Glassford was not pleased with the decision to have the Army intervene, believing that the police could have handled the situation . He soon resigned as superintendent . </P> <P> MGM released the movie Gabriel Over the White House in March 1933, the month Roosevelt was sworn in as president . Produced by William Randolph Hearst's Cosmopolitan Pictures, it depicted a fictitious President Hammond who, in the film's opening scenes, refuses to deploy the military against a march of the unemployed and instead creates an "Army of Construction" to work on public works projects until the economy recovers . First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt judged the movie's treatment of veterans superior to Hoover's . </P> <P> During the presidential campaign of 1932, Roosevelt had opposed the veterans' bonus demands . When they organized a second demonstration in May 1933, he provided the marchers with a campsite in Virginia and provided them three meals a day . </P> <P> Administration officials, led by presidential confidant Louis Howe, tried to negotiate an end to the protest . Roosevelt arranged for his wife, Eleanor, to visit the site unaccompanied . She lunched with the veterans and listened to them perform songs . She reminisced about her memories of seeing troops off to World War I and welcoming them home . The most that she could offer was a promise of positions in the newly created Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC). One veteran commented, "Hoover sent the army, Roosevelt sent his wife ." In a press conference following her visit, the First Lady described her reception as courteous and praised the marchers, highlighting how comfortable she felt despite critics of the marchers who described them as communists and criminals . </P>

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