Manifest for Pennsylvania Central Airlines Flight 19 on August 31, 1940. Her name was Norma. 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.\". As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. William Maloney was an experienced federal prosecutor. The full episode transcript for Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra | Episode 4: A Bad Angle. Washington, DC 20510. Maddow: It was just a bad angle. George Viereck and the Nazi government were using the America First movement and America First members of Congress for those ends. 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. Senator with a quite literal German agent of influence sitting in his office, writing speeches for him, writing pieces that are paid pieces. Options for Contacting Senators. He basically operated in plain sight in the United States for years. The Republican caucus in this chamber can, and I believe will, make a fundamental difference. Norma Lundeen: The dead cannot be hurt by vilification. 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. But he remained isolationist and was later denounced by the party as a reactionary. Our Associate Producer is Janmaris Perez. Hours: M-F 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. (Senate in session) 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. (Senate out of session) Get Directions. Maddow: In the wake of the plane crash that killed Minnesota U.S. Phone numbers are available on each state's page or on your senator's website. Senate. 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. The members of Congress who were working with this Nazi agent, they were members of both the Senate and the House. Phone: (202) 224-2441. Amateurs were turning this stuff up, not the authorities. William Maloney had managed to run up an eye-popping, 400-to-nothing record as a prosecutor there. 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. Our Technical Director is Bryson Barnes. 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Fax: (202) 228-2190. They were all in on the cause. No, the thing that Norma was really set on denying first and foremost was the allegation that someone other than her husband had been writing his speeches. If any media outlet requires photographs of any of our Senators, they are invited to use anything contained on our Flickr account with attribution to Colorado Senate Republicans.. 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"). 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? The plane crashed. They expected to find evidence of that scheme that they knew about: notes, documents, records of payments, other evidence linking this Nazi agent to Senator Lundeen. He not only votes the right way but he fights for other pro-gun leaders to be elected to defend the Second Amendment. Daten ber Ihr Gert und Ihre Internetverbindung, wie Ihre IP-Adresse, Browsing- und Suchaktivitten bei der Nutzung von Yahoo Websites und -Apps. The letter reads: "May I be a senator after Wash[ington] and Lincoln and under God (always for our America.)". And random people dont just get to jump on a national radio broadcast whenever they feel like they have something to say. Maddow: Millions of Americans. An IPR Political Analysis: The Seventh Realignment, Breaking News: Connor Nepomuceno Resigns from LNC. It was the last name of a guy: a guy named George Sylvester Viereck. In 1940, FDR was running for an unprecedented third term as US president. A box containing Sen. Ernest Lundeen's records and papers at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives at Stanford University. As representative, he was one of 50 Congressman to vote, against the declaration of war against Germany on April 6, 1917.v He served as a Party member in, the House from March 4, 1933 to January 3, 1937 in the 73rd and 74th congresses. Postal Service at essentially their own cost. Ernest Lundeen (August 4, 1878 August 31, 1940) was an American lawyer and politician. Laundering millions of pieces of Nazi propaganda through Congress and into the hands of the American people. 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. [10] Within the year after the tragedy, the story that Lundeen's speeches have been written by Viereck had been reported by several journalists. Education. He felt the United States had become a great power because President, Mr. "[5], On June 14, 1939, Lundeen joined a civilian and press delegation aboard USS Hammann for its sea trials off Fire Island. Leadership Position. Morse had vigorously denouncedHolman as a dangerous isolationist.. [11] It was later discovered that the files were actually stored in the Lundeen family archives. Senator Smith. He 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. Copyright 2022 Colorado Senate Republicans.All Rights Reserved. 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. box 4, folder 4-5. He supplied high-profile and low-profile members of the America First movement coast-to-coast. Viereck needed to reach large numbers of Americans, to start turning the tide of public opinion away from U.S. interests and towards Germany. There were newspapers, the radio, newsreels at the movies, and then there was the mail. What she was there to do really was, as she put it, something unprecedented in radio broadcasting. This is on par with the median of 17.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving From both parties. But his biggest, boldest, most successful operation, is the one he ran from the seat of American democracy itself. Lundeen was carrying these pages when he died, and they were found near the scene of the plane crash. And after about eight months of reading these reports about her deceased husband in the papers, hearing about them on the radio news, Norma Lundeen decided that shed had enough. He served in the Minnesota House of Representatives 191114. They represented a bunch of different states, up and down the political spectrum. 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! America First. That tight-little, patriotic-sounding populist slogan was both a don't-get-involved-in-the-war rallying cry, and a good, profile-boosting vehicle for members of congress who for whatever reason were opposed to Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was just an electoral juggernaut at the time. Norma Lundeen: A number of photographs of my husband were taken while he was speaking. He was very good at it. Young: Norma Lundeen directed, upon her husband's death, to have given to her all the Viereck files. Despite Norma's best efforts, the secret was getting out in the press and, soon, in court. Senator Ernest Lundeen and George Sylvester Viereck were old friends. Maddow: By 1940, George Sylvester Viereck and Senator Ernest Lundeen were a well-oiled, two-man propaganda machine. They knew that William Power Maloney was very likely hot on their trail. Other countries have senators as well, either elected or appointed. She later made a dramatic plea for justice for her late husbands memory, but was denied an opportunity to speak directly to the jury. 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. 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. It helped him transform his scheme from a two-man band into a kind of assembly-line of Nazi propaganda being pumped out of the U.S. Captiol and into the mailboxes of unsuspecting Americans from coast-to-coast. And some Americans didnt need much persuading. Because what had really ticked her off was not just the reporting that her husband was being tailed by the FBI, or that he was under investigation for being in cahoots with a Nazi agent, or that he made a practice of standing under a big swastika banner. But the speaker was in fact doing something unusual. 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. To Senators Pelton (Byron and Rod), [] The application of one, or sometimes two members names, from the second party has been the accepted measure of that claim. Maddow: After the plane crash that killed her husband, Norma Lundeen traveled to Washington D.C. 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 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. Rachel Maddow Presents: Ultra is a production of MSNBC and NBC News. And George Sylvester Viereck was the top German agent in charge of executing that mission in the United States. Darcy always has the most informative and entertaining articles. In his time in the Senate, was accused of demanding kickbacks from his employees. Maddow: The Viereck files. Jared Poliss office. Viereck wrote Lundeen's speeches. He needed to reach millions of Americans. May God bless the work we undertake today with wisdom and a spirit of joy and understanding. He served from January 3. Photo of Minnesota Sen. Ernest Lundeen, April 1940. Hart: We believe it's millions of Americans. Klicken Sie auf Einstellungen verwalten um weitere Informationen zu erhalten und Ihre Einstellungen zu verwalten. Norma Lundeen: Only a few days after the husband and father we loved had been laid away, this storm of malice broke. What was Hitler trying to do? Senator Patricia Billie Miller Senator Miller represents Darien and Stamford. Viereck was not some kind of code word. Maddow: The widow of Senator Ernest Lundeen. The United States Senate consists of 100 members, two from each of the 50 states. The speech Im entitled to a little justice., During and following the trial, the mainstream media playing to the war hysteria that swept the country after Pearl Harbor delighted in dragging the Lundeen name through the mud at every opportunity. How many members of Congress were in on this thing? When these speeches are published, he's actually splitting the profits with this German agent of influence. He was gonna need more Senators. Sen. Ernest Lundeen is listed as passenger 15. These difficult conversations can be noisy. [7] Also on board were "a Special Agent of the FBI, a second FBI employee, and a prosecutor from Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Probably too big a lift but I'm keeping my fingers crossed. 2003, Olga Gardner Galvin, The Alphabet Challenge, Page 31. Bold. In fact, to conclude that all the solutions lie in government action is false on its face and the highest order of misguided hubris. Have you visited? We can ratchet up the noise of politics or we can elevate the level of debate. Senator Ernest Lundeen in a mysterious plane crash in 1940 left a series of questions that lead to revealing threats to American democracy. In 1934, during the 73rd Congress, Lundeen sponsored the Workers' Unemployment Insurance Bill. But he remained isolationist and was later denounced by the party as a reactiona May 18, 1941, 11:30 to 11:45pm, the NBC Blue Network. What we do: We create products for those who want to make their mark. What George Sylvester Viereck figured out was that he could weaponize that against the American people. To the People of Colorado: We care about your familys ability to get aheadnot just survive. All of us face something completely unexpected in Coloradoempty store shelvesand runaway UNaffordability when we do find the products and services we seek. IE 11 is not supported. The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. An IPR Editorial January 6, 2021 Our John Brown Moment? 1. I have been asked, can a team of twelve, the minority caucus in this august chamber make a difference? [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. Long forgotten, Norman Lundeen Holman the wife of two U.S. Hart: So what Viereck has done is he's realized that there's a way to game the American Congressional system against itself. Most of Ernest Lundeen's brothers and sisters died during a diphtheria epidemic during the 1880s. 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. Senators died in relative obscurity in 1983 at the age of 87. Together we face some persistent problems and it is likely that new challenges will arise. View all links. A special thanks to historian Bradley Hart. The word senator has been used The Latin word senator was adopted into English with no change in spelling. She said it was a big misunderstanding. 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