In the depression the American Legion demanded immediate cash payments. The issue was not resolved until January 1936. Hoover treated the ‘Bonus Marchers’, who camped in Washington in the summer of 1932, with cold legality. He sent the Army, under the command of General Douglas MacArthur, with his aide Colonel Eisenhower at his side, to disperse them. This was done with considerable roughness. Roosevelt gave them sympathy but not the money.