They were all in on the cause. 25 people were killed, including Minnesota Sen. Ernest Lundeen. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Material created by or approved by the Hitler government in Berlin, provided to viciously anti-Semitic groups, linked to both street violence against American Jews and also violent armed plots against the U.S. government; Viereck using kernels of disturbance here in American life to drive us apart from one another, to drive us apart from our allies, to destabilize life here at home, to scare us, to make fascism seem like it was on the march, and on its way here, and maybe we should welcome it. But historians who've studied this have made the very obvious point, how could she have not known his connection to Viereck and the Nazis? Radio Reporter: Senator Ernest Lundeen reported killed today in the crash of a Pennsylvania central airlines plane. Viereck's plan was working. Have a news tip, press release, or another story that you think we should cover? 1. Many of the members of Congress who have been involved with the Viereck scandal and tend towards the anti-interventionist, anti-Roosevelt side of the aisle find themselves as prominent figures in America First. Sen. Ernest Lundeen is listed as passenger 15. His base of operations the center of American democracy itself the United States Congress. He was criminally charged for his role in the scheme that he ran through Congress, which was a shot across the bow to all the members of Congress who had helped Viereck carry out the scheme. Main Sections. You can find much more about this series you can see what we mean about Norma Lundeen's hat problem and that "just a bad angle" photo of her husband all at our website: MSNBC.com/ultra. [11], "Senator Lundeen" redirects here. And some Americans didnt need much persuading. Maddow: This turbocharged Viercks operation. And then in the run-up to World War II, he was basically the poster child in the Senate for leaving Germany alone to just do its thing. The members of Congress who were working with this Nazi agent, they were members of both the Senate and the House. When this war is over, she asserted on the campaign trail, we must insist that our sons be returned to America. If the internationalists prevailed, she cautioned repeatedly, the United States would soon find itself entangled in continuous intrigue around the globe, one in which the American people would eventually lose control of their own country and find their own children pushed out of their cradle of liberty.. And that Viereck file that the Senator's wife was looking for and that she took away so soon after her husband died, that file contained more than a decade's-worth of correspondence between Lundeen and Viereck. William Maloney was an experienced federal prosecutor. And he was a high profile person. We cannot, nor should we ever, expect the people of Colorado to unwillingly surrender anything that is theirs, including their hard-earned money, their closely-held beliefs, their livelihoods or small businesses, or their basic rights as enshrined in the United States Constitution. The agent sent this letter to Lundeen, telling him not to worry about the press being onto them, and that the whole thing was a \"witch hunt.\". Viereck would supply this material, supply these speeches to Lundeen, Lundeen would take them and read them verbatim on the floor of the Senate. We hope that the majority will listen to our ideas and incorporate the best of them in what we ultimately together offer the people of Colorado. Images: Telephone; U.S. Constitution; Senate leaders Byrd & Baker; John Glenn receives medal; Appropriations Committee Contact Leadership & Officers Former Senators Qualifications & Terms of Service Facts & Milestones States He served as a Minnesota Farmer-Labor Party member in the House from March 4, 1933, to January3, 1937, in the 73rd and 74th Congresses. A senator is a person who works in the government. Covering Third Parties and Independent Candidates Since 2008. The answer rings clear. Radio Reporter: George Sylvester Viereck, well-known publicist, has been indicted by a grand jury which pictures him as using congressional franks to send-out his material. Failure to address these issues risks leaving our grandchildren to face a parched, unlivable, ignorant existence. When Norma Lundeen took to the airwaves that Sunday in May 1941, she and her family were very much still in the throes of grief. According to the secretary, Ive gone too far to turn back, was about all Lundeen said. He was under federal investigation for, effectively, colluding with a hostile foreign power. But for this scheme to be truly successful, Viereck needed his propaganda to go beyond Senator Lundeens reach with his constituents in Minnesota. The bill was narrowly voted out of the Labor Committee, but it was killed by House leadership, which wanted no competition for Wagner-Lewis. In politics unexpected losses bless you with focused thoughts. The letter reads: "May I be a senator after Wash [ington] and Well that material was supplied to Francis Moran by George Sylvester Viereck. When wheat is fed into the thresher the chaff blows away. As a matter of fact, he was standing under the stars and stripes. Minority Leader. [10] Norma tried to prevent that narrative by claiming that "no one wrote [her] husband's speeches" and threatening to sue one of the journalists who was reporting on it. But the woman behind the mic that day, she was someone who was in a unique and interesting situation. The German agent would provide speeches to Senator Lundeen, Lundeen would then deliver on the Senate floor, theyd get tons of copies made, then the publicist would run logistics on getting those copies mailed out to the public. Photo of Minnesota Sen. Ernest Lundeen, April 1940. senador. Postal Service at essentially their own cost. In late 1940 and early 1941, the Ernest Lundeen story it started off bad, it took a hard right turn, but then it just kept getting worse and worse all the time with each new revelation. Senator Lundeen gave this speech detailing the history of the Minnesota Farmer Labor Party on August 15, 1940 Lundeen served in the United States Army during the Spanish-American War. That said, colleagues, I am grateful and honored for the opportunity to stand before you today and share with you some hopes going into this legislative session. Maddow: Senator Lundeen had built his career on being outspoken against the US joining foreign wars. In fact, to conclude that all the solutions lie in government action is false on its face and the highest order of misguided hubris. On their own, together, in teams, or as organisations. Mr. Maddow: And that right there, that is where Norma Lundeen slipped up. Her name was Norma. It was disbanded when Derrick was only six, after that grouchy old ultra-Libertarian Senator Timothy de Illy His speech lasted 1 hour and 10 minutes and touched on a broad range of topics, from climate change to affordable housing, water to public safety. Norma Lundeen: Innuendos have been made that a certain individual wrote my husbands speeches. Legislative Council. Member of the Farmer-Labor Party was born 1878 and died 1940. Many were Communists, including Party chairman Earl Browder. And as soon as he was assigned to this new job by the Attorney General, Maloney began putting the pieces together, starting with Ernest Lundeen and George Sylvester Viereck and what sure seemed to be an improper relationship there. Hart: We believe it's millions of Americans. Hart: America First becomes a grab bag of everything, anti-Roosevelt. Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra is a production of MSNBC and NBC News. Radio Reporter: George Sylvester Viereck, the man who has been prominent for several years as a Nazi propagandist. ( sometimes abbreviated to Sen. in titles) a member of a lawmaking senate. The speech written for Sen. Ernest Lundeen by a paid Nazi agent. With the help of his pal, Senator Ernest Lundeen, George Sylvester Viereck had roped in dozens of sitting members of Congress to help him launder and disseminate Nazi propaganda using the resourcces of the United States congress. January 17, 2023 at 11:16 a.m. Below are the remarks as delivered by Gov. Minnesotas Norma Lundeen, widow of the Farmer-Labor Partys Ernest Lundeen, an isolationist who was later accused of being a Nazi sympathizer, unexpectedly entered the race for her late husbands U.S. Senate seat in July of 1942. That was all she asked for. To Senators Pelton (Byron and Rod), [] Maddow: George Syvester Viereck, as a highly-paid, highly-ranked agent of Hitlers government, he had his marching orders. William Maloney had managed to run up an eye-popping, 400-to-nothing record as a prosecutor there. To commemorate the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, and recognize the service of the first female senator in 1922, learn about the Women of the Senate. The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Pretty soon were talking right past each other and the cacophony can only be described as noise. Norma Lundeen: A number of photographs of my husband were taken while he was speaking. Mrs. Ernest Lundeen speaks and apparently she's speaking in reply to certain statements about her husband made by Walter Winchell in his broadcast. Nazis in America: FDR 1940 and the 'Trump Era' Together we face some persistent problems and it is likely that new challenges will arise. From both parties. We found correspondence from a Vice President at NBC telling Norma Lundeen that he personally had intervened to delete mentions of Senator Lundeen from two different broadcasts. Senator Bob Rankin Announces his Resignation Dec 1, They asserted that Lundeens speeches were bitterly anti-British and vigorously against American preparedness. Whether certain foreign agents figured that they were about Maddow: The Viereck files. These difficult conversations can be noisy. Maddow: Once George Viereck was arrested, the members of Congress who had participated in this scheme, they knew that prosecutors were onto them. A letter Sen. Ernest Lundeen wrote to himself on the eve before he was sworn in to the United States Senate. Hart: We have a U.S. Addresses for each senator can be found on the senator's website or state's web page. When Senator Lundeen boarded that doomed Pennsylvania Central Airlines plane in August 1940, remember that his final destination was back home in Minnesota, where he was slated to deliver a speech on Labor Day weekend. That speech was also a speech against America getting into the war. Filter members by last name, committee, district number, or party (type (D) (R) for party): Home Page. Armed with that information, William Maloney took action. Much broader. In reality, a number of the most high-profile America First members of Congress were in cahoots with a paid agent of the Hitler government who was supplying them with propaganda intended not just to keep the U.S. out of World War II, but also to divide Americans along political lines, racial lines, religious lines, class lines, all in the interest of national demoralization." quotations . She complained to the radio stations who carried his reporting, trying to get him taken off the air; she threatened the sponsors who advertised on the broadcasts in which he appeared. IE 11 is not supported. Senator Paul Lundeen. Lundeen, who had been active in the America First Committee, was never a serious factor in the primary. Legislature Home > Senate >. When these speeches are published, he's actually splitting the profits with this German agent of influence. Maddow: By 1940, George Sylvester Viereck and Senator Ernest Lundeen were a well-oiled, two-man propaganda machine. Yet, in the face of haunting statistics about rising crime and exploding unaffordability, the people of this state get up every morning, unsure of what the day ahead holds, and work to build better lives for themselves and their families. Here are historians Nancy Beck Young and Bradley Hart. Darcy could be President if he listens to me. Together they compose the national bicameral legislature of the United States . Viereck wrote speeches and articles for Lundeen about how our supposed allies were weak and hypocritical and corrupt and doomed, how American democracy was corrupt and rigged, how the fascist government in Germany was strong, how the United States government should stay out of Germanys way. A recession appears to be at our shared doorstep and the government continues to grow faster than family budgets. We care about the quality and flexibility of your childs education that is so important to their future success. It is almost unanimous, the people we represent, the whole people of Colorado, say they do NOT like polarized politics. Mr. Hart: He realizes very quickly that one Senator isn't enough here. All of those members of Congress tied up in Vierecks scheme, all of them were associated with something called the America First movement. Daten ber Ihr Gert und Ihre Internetverbindung, wie Ihre IP-Adresse, Browsing- und Suchaktivitten bei der Nutzung von Yahoo Websites und -Apps. This was in no way a secret and Lundeen must have known the man he was dealing with was at least pro-German, if not actively working on behalf of the German government. These speeches would run as articles, under Lundeens byline, as if the senator had written them himself. And George Sylvester Viereck was the top German agent in charge of executing that mission in the United States. And she knew that she herself had just hidden away the evidence that would prove it. DENVER Below is the transcript of Colorado Senate Minority Leader Paul Lundeens (R-Monument) speech on the opening day of the First Regular Session of the 74th General Assembly. What she was there to do really was, as she put it, something unprecedented in radio broadcasting. But no. Hart: This is a moment of great political danger, I think for these men. The plane crashed. He needed to reach millions of Americans. But what prosecutor William Power Maloney actually found during that raid, it set him back on his heels. Nove~IBER 19, Federal Government Chapter Eight Chapter Eight, Knute Nelson. Not so much when we talk common sense. The series is Executive Produced by myself and Mike Yarvitz, and it's produced by Kelsey Desiderio. Private activist groups operating outside law enforcement were tracing stolen U.S. military weapons and complex, violent plots involving homegrown violent fascists with help and financing from Berlin. Radio Reporter: Senator Burton K. Wheeler of Montana, a leader of the America First Committee, has threatened to demand a Congressional investigation of the way the Justice Department has been handling the prosecution of Nazi sympathizers. This is the man, who after the grave had closed on him, and he could no longer defend his good name, has been ruthlessly slandered by repeatedly suggesting that Senator Lundeen was not a loyal American. Paul Lundeen is the Republican Colorado Senator for District 9. Lundeen was elected to the United States Senate in 1936 as a member of the Farmer-Labor Party. But his biggest, boldest, most successful operation, is the one he ran from the seat of American democracy itself. Hart: Many of these men begin sort of searching their own files, trying to find out what their legal exposure might be. In an echo of Coveys encouragement for to us to seek first to understand then to be understood, lets start from the perspective that every material amendment offeredis a friendly amendment. And it was a hot story: the worst civilian air crash in U.S. history, a Senator killed, three members of the justice department on the plane with him, killed in the same crash, the cause of the crash totally unclear; the reporting on his ties to the Hitler government, which was soon bolstered by legitimately shocking photos that emerged of Senator Lundeen standing under a giant swastika banner. Maddow: George Sylvester Viereck was an agent working on behalf of the fascist government in Germany. Looking around the publicist's apartment that day in Washington, William Power Maloney took in the sight of hundreds of documents and envelopes bearing the names of all sorts of members of Congress: Republican Congressman Stephen Day of Illinois, Democratic Congressman Martin L. Sweeney of Ohio, Democratic Senator David Worth Clark of Idaho, Republican Congressman George Tinkham of Massachusetts, Republican Congressman Jacob Thorkelson of Montana, Republican Senator Gerald Nye of North Dakota. The Senate Republican caucus eagerly awaits the opportunity to help achieve solutions that will benefit all Coloradans. Lundeen was carrying these pages when he died, and they were found near the scene of the plane crash. Maddow: Norma Lundeen made her case, defending her husband passionately and directly to the public. Moving forward we propose the marker that gives honest purchase to the claim of bipartisanship should be: the tone, tenor and discernable principles and meaningful details folded into the legislation. House and Senate Rules; Email addresses for the Colorado legislature have changed from the @state.co.us domain to the @coleg.gov domain on December 1, 2022. All eyes were briefly on Lundeen. It wasnt surprising, therefore, thatTIME Magazine, in a particularly vicious swipe at the late lawmaker,referred to Norma Lundeen shortly before the primary as the 46-year-old widow of British-hating, German-loving Senator Ernest Lundeen.. Archival support from Holly Klopchin. And less than 48-hours after her husband had died, she in one of her memorable hats marched into his Senate office in the U.S. Capitol. The saying in this body is that the minority gets their say, and the majority gets their way. Phone numbers are available on each state's page or on your senator's website. Maddow: One of the reasons Viereck operated so successfully for so long had something to do with the way he did business. She later made a dramatic plea for justice for her late husbands memory, but was denied an The election is behind us, and we honor the result. The truth is its not really a broadcast channel, its a narrowcast channel and you and I are increasingly rewarded with dopamine hitswe get the hits when we get more likes or shares than the with the previous postand we tend to get more hits when we post things that tickle the fancy of one edge, or the other, of politics. He served from January 3, 1937, in the 75th and 76th Congresses, until his death. Initially, his Communist sympathies remained strong: in 1936, then Senator-elect Lundeen addressed a meeting of the "Friends of the Soviet Union" at Madison Square Garden as " Tovarishchi " ("Comrades"). As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. How far did it go? The Colorado Senate is just three seats away from a conservative check on the out-of-control Democrat agenda. It turned out that Viereck also helped write speeches for several isolationist congressmen, including ghostwriting at least six speeches for Lundeen all of which came out during his closely-watched trial in early 1942, seven months before the Minnesota primary. Because apparently it wasn't just this one Senator, this one recently-deceased Senator Ernest Lundeen who had been involved. And theyd get paid for it. A U.S. Capitol Switchboard operator can also connect you directly with the That picture of Ernest Lundeen, standing under that giant swastika? Madeleine Haeringer is our Head of Editorial. Young: Once Lundeen was approached by Viereck, Lundeen was all in. An IPR Political Analysis: The Seventh Realignment, Breaking News: Connor Nepomuceno Resigns from LNC. Envelopes bearing the names of Senators Rush Holt and Senator Burton Wheeler and Congressman Clare Hoffman, and all sorts of others. He was fully capable of writing his own, and he wrote his own. Perhaps that is why the Senator's wife, Norma, took that file from his office and hid it away in the days after his death, in the hopes that that secret would follow Senator Lundeen to the grave. [8][9], After the plane crash, Lundeen's wife, Norma Lundeen tried to clear his name by covering up[10] his involvement with the Nazi regime. Senators The Constitution prescribes that the Senate be composed of two senators from each State (therefore, the Senate currently has 100 Members) and that a senator must be at least thirty years of age, have been a citizen of the United States for nine years, and, when elected, be a resident of the State from which he or she is chosen. Please include your return postal mailing address when corresponding with a Senate office. Program for the funeral service of Sen. Ernest Lundeen on September 4, 1940, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. His excellent, excellent book is called Hitler's American Friends: The Third Reich's Supporters in the United States. Highest recommendation, 12 stars out of ten! Maddow: Viereck told Lundeen that he had a plan by which they could make some pretty serious cash. Party. Hart: We have a number of the biggest figures in American politics in this period, men who are truly household names, the biggest names really in Republican congressional politics, they all fall under the spell of this Nazi propaganda operation. Norma then proceeded to falsely testify that she indeed took the Viereck files, but the files are gone due to a burglary that has taken place at their residence. Senator Ernest Lundeen, a scandalous story had begun to unspool about how the Senator was tangled up with a Nazi agent. May God bless the work we undertake today with wisdom and a spirit of joy and understanding. Young: Norma Lundeen directed, upon her husband's death, to have given to her all the Viereck files. They funneled millions and millions of dollars through him and his various U.S. efforts on behalf of the German government. She had essentially just been handed the airwaves at NBC, at the National Broadcasting Company, set loose to say whatever she wanted. [3], Lundeen was elected to the United States Senate in 1936 as a member of the Farmer-Labor Party. Archival radio material is from NBC Newsvia the Library of Congress, which you really should visit. This episode was written by myself, Mike Yarvitz, and Kelsey Desiderio. Yes! Thanks to that raid on that D.C. apartment, he now had names and literal receipts of the other members of Congress who had been involved. My Republican colleagues elected me as Senate Republican Minority Whip to ensure that Republican ideals like freedom and independence will not be cancelled in the culture war we A box containing Sen. Ernest Lundeen's records and papers at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives at Stanford University. 1890-1914, Guide to a Microfilm Edition of the Alexander Ramsey Papers and Records, 2021 Directory of Licensed and Certified Health Care Facilities (PDF), CHAIRMEN of SENATE STANDING COMMITTEES [Table 5-3] 1789Present, Minnesota's Scandinavian Political Legacy, Knute Nelson and the Immigration Question, History of Minnesota and Tales of the Frontier.Pdf, CAPITOL AREA ARCHITECTURAL and PLANNING BOARD (CAAPB) and the MINNESOTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, Federal Government President of the United States, Farmer-Labor, Minnesota) Senator Lundeen Gave This Speech Detailing the History of the Minnesota Farmer Labor Party on August 15, 1940, Norse Centennial in America from Bemidji MNS Newspaper, The Pioneer Sunday, August 1 2004 Page B5, The Farmer-Labor Party in Minnesota Politics: 1918-1948, CONGRESSIONAL RECORD-SENATE. Pitted against the popular Benson and ex-Farmer-Labor congressman Henry M. Arens, a 70-year-old former lieutenant governor with deep ties to the states farm cooperative movement, many observers believed that the Lundeen name still possessed some magic in Minnesota Farmer-Labor circles, especially among the states large German-American population. He was kind of their top banana here. 2. in ancient Rome, the chief legislative and administrative body. Occupation. Like the people of Colorado do every day, we must all lean forward and strain toward the prize of a better Colorado for ourselves, our children and our posterity. Hart: This is a man who is a fairly known quantity. Send any friend a story. He had close ties to George Sylvester Viereck, a leading Nazi agent in the U.S. Viereck often used Lundeen's office, and "sometimes dictated speeches for Lundeen, openly using the Senator's telephones to obtain material from Hans Thomsen at the [German] embassy. And so, newly appointed by the Attorney General, William Power Maloney decided to move quickly. His father, C. H. Lundeen, was an early pioneer who was credited with the naming of Brooklyn Township as well as with helping to establish the school and other institutions located there. Ernest Lundeen of the Minnesota Senate in the 76 congress. He said a lot of aspirational things about making Colorado better," said Senate Minority Leader Paul Lundeen. Lundeen was adamantly opposed to the United States involvement in World War I and campaigned on that stance. But we are intent to do more than just talk. It is a tradition in this building to claim that this policy or that piece of legislation is bi-partisan. Viereck was not some kind of code word. near Lovettsville, Virginia and all 25 persons on board were killed, including Senator Lundeen. Testifying as a witness for the defense in Vierecks trial, Norma Lundeen said that she had never heard Viereck utter a single un-American remark. His work, his identity, it really wasnt a secret. She had a taste for flamboyant hats. His real talent was recruiting sympathetic Americans to do the work for him; recruiting Americans sometimes with cash, but sometimes just with his charm, with his powers of persuasion. Elmer A. Benson, a vehement left-winger who was heavily favored to win the primary, to fend off challenges from two unapologetic nationalists in what amounted to the partys last hurrah. (One of the most successful third parties in American history, Minnesotas Farmer-Labor Party merged with the Democrats in the spring of 1944.). I mentioned the Republican caucus in this chamber can, and I believe will, make a fundamental difference in the way this body takes on and talks about issues. 2003, Olga Gardner Galvin, The Alphabet Challenge, Page 31. So at that point, they had two options: fess up, give up the game, cooperate with the investigation; or, try to burn the whole thing down. WITNESS SAYS HILL USED LUNDEEN FRANK; Mrs. Spielman Testifies Viereck Wrote Speeches for Senator. The word senator has been used Speech before Congress by US Senator Ernest Lundeen, (Farmer-Labor, Minnesota) Senator Lundeen gave this speech detailing the history of the Minnesota Farmer Labor Party on We are The Senator Group Senator Products Go to senator.online Allermuir Products Go to allermuir.com Discover What we offer _All Services Environments Global Reach Sustainability Services Learn more about our workplace consultancy. And while he was doing that, he was also wheedling his way into the heart of American power. They had failed to act on advance warning of explosions at American munitions plants, planned as sabotage. Bill Information. Its a Congressional privilege thats called franking, which still exists today. senado. There were newspapers, the radio, newsreels at the movies, and then there was the mail. But when she turned up at his office, she wasnt there to comfort his staff, or to speak with his colleagues, or collect his personal effects. Hart: What Viereck realizes is that members of Congress have unique privileges relating to the words that they speak on the floor of the House or Senate and to the Congressional Record itself. He served from January 3. Hed spent years at the U.S. Attorneys office in the Southern District of New York handling high-profile federal cases of fraud and corruption. President, Mr. Dec 13, 2022 DENVER Today, Senator Paul Lundeen (R - Monument) announced committee assignments for the Senate Republican Caucus during the 74th General Assembly of the State of Colorado. Other countries have senators as well, either elected or appointed. By then, the Lundeen name had been too badlytarnished by revelations that her late husband had associated with some fairly seedy characters on the Far Right, the most damaging of which was his longtime association with George Sylvester Viereck, a controversial German-American poet and novelist who was then serving a two-to-six year prison sentence for having worked as a publicist and propagandist for the Nazis following Hitlers rise to power in Germany. They ultimately chose option two. And all of us face a future where energy is unreliable and unaffordable unless we wisely use the best carbon transition fuels we have and explore alternative energy options, like nuclear. Lundeen was carrying these pages when he died, and they were found near the scene of the plane crash. So, though in many cases, misguided policies have created or exacerbated the problems of today, I am optimistic that when we more fully embrace the principles and values that have made this country and this state exceptional we change our future for the better. Challenges faced by all. Bold. On the afternoon of August 31, 1940, Lundeen was a passenger on Flight 19 of Pennsylvania Central Airlines, flying from Washington to, Detroit. View all links. Darcy always has the most informative and entertaining articles. President, Mr. Amateurs were turning this stuff up, not the authorities. 1937 in the 75th and 76th congresses, until his death. Toward that end, Ive put a fully amendment 41 compliant gift on each of your desks today. Services Learn more about Sustain. But besides their connection to this German foreign agent, they did all have one other thing in common. All these sitting members of Congress. Rachel Maddow: A mission which is unprecedented in radio broadcasting. 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