Legislative Council. He basically operated in plain sight in the United States for years. Welcome. 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"). That picture of Ernest Lundeen, standing under that giant swastika? 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. President, Mr. 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"). The Senate Republican caucus eagerly awaits the opportunity to help achieve solutions that will benefit all Coloradans. The Justice Department had failed to convict the members of the Christian Front who tried to overthrow the government. In that demand for the papers, there is what could be read as an acknowledgement of guilt. What she was there to do really was, as she put it, something unprecedented in radio broadcasting. He needed more pre-paid envelopes. All eyes were briefly on Lundeen. 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 It is a tradition in this building to claim that this policy or that piece of legislation is bi-partisan. View all links. Maddow: George Syvester Viereck, as a highly-paid, highly-ranked agent of Hitlers government, he had his marching orders. She later made a dramatic plea for justice for her late husbands memory, but was denied an Join our email list to receive press releases and other important news about legislation delivered straight to your inbox. 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. Lundeen was carrying these pages when he died, and they were found near the scene of the plane crash. He served in the Minnesota House of Representatives 191114. The application of one, or sometimes two members names, from the second party has been the accepted measure of that claim. He was very good at it. 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. Bold. All of us face a public school system that is hemorrhaging quality teachers and failing to meet the needs of far too many students unless we fund and focus on students instead of the system. This is on par with the median of 17.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving Sen. Ernest Lundeen is listed as passenger 15. 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. American tax payers were paying for Nazi propaganda with American tax dollars. 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. senator. Viereck, who had actively supported Robert M. La Follettes insurgent candidacy for the presidency in 1924, had cultivated friendships with several leading isolationist lawmakers, including New Yorks Hamilton Fish, Jr., but Senator Lundeen was arguably his closest ally in Congress. Among the crash victims were Nazi sympathizer Senator Ernest Lundeen (R-Minn; born August 4, 1878 Dakota Territory) and (reputedly) a couple of FBI agents, along with other passengers and crew members on the ill-fated flight that left that afternoon from Washington DC heading for Detroit. Letter from Attorney General Robert H. Jackson addressed to Sen. Ernest Lundeen's widow, denying that there was ongoing investigation into Lundeen at the time of his death. Washington, DC 20510. There were newspapers, the radio, newsreels at the movies, and then there was the mail. To do that, within 2 days after the crash she travelled to his office in the Capitol to retrieve the "Viereck files". An IPR Editorial January 6, 2021 Our John Brown Moment? Maddow: The widow of Senator Ernest Lundeen. His work ethic, persistence, and principled defense of gun-rights makes this endorsement simple. 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. Contents 1 Party affiliation 2 Leadership 2.1 Presiding officers 2.2 Majority leadership 2.3 Minority leadership 3 List of senators 4 See also 5 Notes 6 References , By Darcy G. Richardson on February 2, 2022 2:05 AM. Send any friend a story. And she knew that she herself had just hidden away the evidence that would prove it. Lundeen might be dead, but George Sylvester Viereck was still out there. No one wrote my husband's speeches. Radio Reporter: George Sylvester Viereck, the man who has been prominent for several years as a Nazi propagandist. Maddow: Despite her efforts to hide her husband's relationship with Viereck, her removing the documentary evidence from her husbands office right after his death. Millions of Americans receive pro-Nazi, anti-interventionist content in this period. Lundeen served in the United States Army during the SpanishAmerican War. Daten ber Ihr Gert und Ihre Internetverbindung, wie Ihre IP-Adresse, Browsing- und Suchaktivitten bei der Nutzung von Yahoo Websites und -Apps. [3], Lundeen was elected to the United States Senate in 1936 as a member of the Farmer-Labor Party. Environments We help to create collaborative learning spaces. Education. Madeleine Haeringer is our Head of Editorial. Young: Republicans are just feeling very defeated as if theres nothing that they can do to stop Roosevelt. Holman, who served on the Senate Military Affairs Committee with Lundeens late husband, had been narrowly defeated in a bid for a second term a few months earlier, losing a bitterly-contested Republican primary to the blunt-mannered and outspoken Wayne Morse. Much broader. Each state in the US elects two senators who serve six-year terms in Washington, DC, where they pass laws and vote on policies. The work on these practical matters is pressing in on us even now. Member of the Farmer-Labor Party was born 1878 and died 1940. [8], In 2022 Rachel Maddow released a podcast series titled Ultra, which explored Lundeen's complicity in Nazi Germany's intelligence and propaganda operations in the U.S. during the 12 to 18 months immediately preceding America's entry into World War II. Don't believe your lying eyes. Have you visited? Republican State Senator Paul Lundeen could be the next President of the State Senate if Republicans take the majority. Lundeens secretary arrived at the senators office on that fateful morning and found Lundeen slumped over on his desk: Hes got his head down on his desk, his head is Young: Viereck would stand in Lundeen's office and use Lundeen's Senate phone to make phone calls to conduct their Nazi business in the United States, disseminating Nazi propaganda to unsuspecting Americans and it's not costing us, German Nazis, a single reichsmark. Disc 20612 Side A from Box T41-26. 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. One of those photographs was taken at such an angle as to convey the impression that my husband was standing beneath the swastika. Well that material was supplied to Francis Moran by George Sylvester Viereck. 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. The speech written for Sen. Ernest Lundeen by a paid Nazi agent. He operated all over the country in the lead-up to America entering World War II. Viereck would arrange for speeches that he wrote for Lundeen to be printed in major American magazines and newspapers. Please include your return postal mailing address when corresponding with a Senate office. Together we must find balance in our discussions and a willingness to look to that far horizon. [6] Lundeen said the experience was "astounding" and that the test showed that American ship designers "need bow to none. Senator Patricia Billie Miller Senator Miller represents Darien and Stamford. But we are intent to do more than just talk. Special Prosecutor William Power Maloney spoke of Viereck as one of the most serious menaces to this country. He should write books or something! The saying in this body is that the minority gets their say, and the majority gets their way. Viereck's plan was working. Its a Congressional privilege thats called franking, which still exists today. The speech written for Sen. Ernest Lundeen by a paid Nazi agent. Lundeen, who had been active in the America First Committee, was never a serious factor in the primary. The series is Executive Produced by myself and Mike Yarvitz, and it's produced by Kelsey Desiderio. In 1906 he was admitted to the bar. He was fully capable of writing his own, and he wrote his own. elected to the Senate in 1936 as a member of the Farmer-Labor Party. box 4, folder 6-8. Bradley Hart: His initial idea is that he's going to have a US Senator spreading Nazi propaganda on the floor of the Senate. 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. 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. Mrs. Ernest Lundeen speaks and apparently she's speaking in reply to certain statements about her husband made by Walter Winchell in his broadcast. She was looking for something very specific. [1] He then served as a Republican from Minnesota in the United States House of Representatives, from March 4, 1917, to March 3, 1919, in the 65th congress. In politics unexpected losses bless you with focused thoughts. Shortly before Sen. Ernest Lundeen's death, a newspaper called P.M. published a report that exposed Lundeen's scheme with a paid Nazi agent to distribute German propaganda throughout the United States. Maddow: The scale of this operation, it kind of takes your breath away. Young: Once Lundeen was approached by Viereck, Lundeen was all in. 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. 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. A copy of the Congressional Record from 1940, containing Sen. Ernest Lundeen's last speech on the floor of the Senate. In 1940, FDR was running for an unprecedented third term as US president. He served from January 3, 1937, in the 75th and 76th Congresses until his death. Holman, who never ran for public office again,died in 1959. House of Representatives. Our Associate Producer is Janmaris Perez. Young: The relationship that the two of them come up with is that Viereck will function as speech writer for Lundeen. They represented a bunch of different states, up and down the political spectrum. The answer rings clear. 2. in ancient Rome, the chief legislative and administrative body. What was Hitler trying to do? 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. The prosecutor who was appointed was named William Power Maloney. Archival support from Holly Klopchin. They were mostly Republicans, but also some Democrats. The plane crashed near Lovettsville, Virginia, and all 25 persons on board were killed. Inventory of Art in the Minnesota State Capitol March 2013, Politics Among Danish Americans in the Midwest, Ca. The full episode transcript for Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra | Episode 4: A Bad Angle. He executed a court-ordered search warrant on an apartment belonging to a D.C. publicist, a guy who they believed to be Viereck's employee in Washington. 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. But the woman behind the mic that day, she was someone who was in a unique and interesting situation. The study explained that Berlin had charged German agents in the U.S. with finding these kernels of disturbance, which were described as, "racial controversies, economic inequalities, petty jealousies in public life, differences of opinion which divide political parties and minority groups. Even the "frustrated ambitions of discarded politicians." Global Reach Hart: We believe it's millions of Americans. [11] It was later discovered that the files were actually stored in the Lundeen family archives. Despite the persistent problems and challenges the people of Colorado face, I am optimistic about our future.because the people of Colorado are an optimistic people. 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 Senator with a quite literal German agent of influence sitting in his office, writing speeches for him, writing pieces that are paid pieces. Speech before Congress by US Senator Ernest, Senator Lundeen gave this speech detailing the history of the, Lundeen served in the United States Army during the Spanish-American War. Norma Lundeen: A number of photographs of my husband were taken while he was speaking. Hart: This is a moment of great political danger, I think for these men. Amateurs were turning this stuff up, not the authorities. Maddow: Once George Viereck was arrested, the members of Congress who had participated in this scheme, they knew that prosecutors were onto them. And even beyond going after reporters, Norma denied what was inarguably clear to anyone with eyes. Maddow: When Senator Ernest Lundeen died, there was a stack of smoking-gun evidence locked inside a filing cabinet in his Senate office in the U.S. Capitol. 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. And yet we must not mislead ourselves into believing that the government can solve all problems. 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. May 18, 1941, 11:30 to 11:45pm, the NBC Blue Network. Jared Poliss office. From Jan 1937 to Aug 1940, Lundeen missed 76 of 416 roll call votes, which is 18.3%. And then it was Moran and his chapter of the Christian Front that so energetically distributed it. Lundeen was carrying these pages when he died, and they were found near the scene of the plane crash. For it is in those commonsense and broadly acceptable solutions and the ability to crane our necks to see beyond today, even tomorrow, far beyond our time in this chamber that the optimism of the people of Colorado rests. Ernest Lundeen of the Minnesota Senate in the 76 congress. He starts asking for huge numbers of these speeches to be printed which are printed at government expense, of course then he actually adds to this and begins asking staffers to provide him with franked envelopes, which can be mailed through the U.S. postal service for free. The plane, a Douglas DC-3, flew into turbulence from a thunderstorm. PROCEEDINGS and DEBATES of the SIXTY-FIFTH CONGRESS SECOND SESSION, Exhibit 1 62-CV-18-254 Filed in Second Judicial District Court 1/30/2018 2:53 PM Ramsey County, MN, A Guide to the Records of Minnesota's Public Lands, Sixty-Eighth Congress March 4, 1923, to March 3, 1925. Hart: His initial idea is that he's going to have a U.S. 1. a lawmaking body, especially the upper house of the parliament in some countries. Many of the issues fought over in this past election are not solved, they are still with us. She later made a dramatic plea for justice for her late husbands memory, but was denied an opportunity to speak directly to the jury. Most of Ernest Lundeen's brothers and sisters died during a diphtheria epidemic during the 1880s. Norma Lundeen: A pair of columnists had written that two Department of Justice agents were on the plane with my husband when it crashed, that they had been assigned to watch him. Fax: (202) 228-2190. What we can do is give space in every Coloradans life. 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. Viereck wrote Lundeen's speeches. 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. near Lovettsville, Virginia and all 25 persons on board were killed, including Senator Lundeen. There was no Facebook, no Twitter, there was no news on TV. Bill Information. Yes! Because George Sylvester Viereck was not the kind of a person who ought to have been a long-standing close friend and work-collaborator with a sitting U.S. ICPSR #5839 A U.S. Capitol Switchboard operator can also connect you directly with the Senator Bob Rankin Announces his Resignation Dec 1, 2022 In part because everyone who choosesand most politicians chooseown a broadcast channel. She said it was a big misunderstanding. He was under federal investigation for, effectively, colluding with a hostile foreign power. 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. Maddow: When George Viereck was looking for a member of Congress to rope into his new scheme to have the Hitler government advance its work through the U.S. Congress, Senator Ernest Lundeen was perhaps an obvious first target for him. This statement is malicious and atrociously false. Kelsey Desiderio: How many Americans were actually receiving Nazi propaganda in their mailboxes as a result of this scheme? On their own, together, in teams, or as organisations. Senate Stories Presented to enlighten, amuse, and inform, our new Senate history blog explores the forces, events, and personalities that have shaped the modern Senate. To the majority caucus: We will make honest and sincere efforts to work with you. But it's almost something from a James Bond film. A paid agent of Hitler's government ramps up a targeted propaganda effort aimed at weakening democracy and supporting the fascist cause in America. 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. 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. How many members of Congress were in on this thing? Together we face some persistent problems and it is likely that new challenges will arise. The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. He felt the United States had become a great power because [2] Owing to the vote, he would lose renomination for the Republican primary in 1918 to the eventual winner, Walter Newton. How far did it go? The election is behind us, and we honor the result. Maddow: The America First Committee started up in 1940 as a pressure group, to try to stop the United States from getting involved in the Second World War. But for this scheme to be truly successful, Viereck needed his propaganda to go beyond Senator Lundeens reach with his constituents in Minnesota. According to the secretary, Ive gone too far to turn back, was about all Lundeen said. 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. And possibly more importantly, we will help this Chamber lift up its head, look to the far horizon, and take on the basic issues that will provide extraordinary opportunities to our grandchildren and their children with a willingness to thoughtfully discern priorities and a laser focus that dismisses unsustainable political pet projects. 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. He was gonna need more Senators. Minority Leader. President, Mr. He supplied high-profile and low-profile members of the America First movement coast-to-coast. She asked them to give her the Viereck files and she took them away with her. Our Web Producer is Will Femia. Because not only did she know for a fact that that allegation was true, that in fact an agent from Hitler's government really had been writing speeches for her Senator husband, she knew that it was true. He had begun to identify those who had been involved in the scheme. Maddow: This idea that there was American unanimity against the Nazis, this sort of wishful historical nostalgia we have for an era in which Amerians were supposedly all on the same page about the need to fight Hitler, for the need to pull together to meet this grave global challenge, that is a tidier, happier memory than what is justified by the real history. Young: Norma Lundeen directed, upon her husband's death, to have given to her all the Viereck files. And I think that for some, playing footsie with fascists was a good idea, they thought. All these sitting members of Congress. Modern-day photo of the field in Lovettsville, Virginia where Trip 19 crashed in 1940, killing all 25 passengers on board. Maddow: After the plane crash that killed her husband, Norma Lundeen traveled to Washington D.C. 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. But no. In the bestselling Seven Habits of highly effective people, Steven Covey suggested we make more headway and create more good in life when we first seek to understand, and then to be understood. His very, very well-funded mission in the United States was two-fold: to try to keep the United States from getting into World War II, but also to soften us up, to mess with us, to make us just less effective as a country, by finding and exploiting what the Germans called "kernels of disturbance" in the United States. He not only votes the right way but he fights for other pro-gun leaders to be elected to defend the Second Amendment. Programming card from NBC News Radio cataloguing Sen. Ernest Lundeen's appearances in 1940. Sen. Ernest Lundeen sent these pamphlets to his constituents, and asked them to indicate whether or not they supported the United States declaring war on Germany. Legislature Home > Senate >. He was something close to famous for his opposition to World War I. 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. Lundeen was carrying these pages when he died, and they were found near the scene of the plane crash. The speech extolled the great contributions of German culture to American life, and argued that Americans had more in common with the fascist German government than it did with the democracies Germany was busy invading. Manifest for Pennsylvania Central Airlines Flight 19 on August 31, 1940. He was kind of their top banana here. Maddow: George Sylvester Viereck was an agent working on behalf of the fascist government in Germany. The speech written for Sen. Ernest Lundeen by a paid Nazi agent. 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