Programming card from NBC News Radio cataloguing Sen. Ernest Lundeen's appearances in 1940. I have been asked, can a team of twelve, the minority caucus in this august chamber make a difference? George Viereck and the Nazi government were using the America First movement and America First members of Congress for those ends. 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! The letter reads: "May I be a senator after Wash[ington] and Lincoln and under God (always for our America.)". 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. 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. This promises to be good. One reason is: adversity has a clarifying effect. Republican State Senator Paul Lundeen could be the next President of the State Senate if Republicans take the majority. Mr. Kindred Was a Very Rich Man, UNIVERSITY of MINNESOTA BOARD of REGENTS Alphabetical by Last Name, Evolution of the Superior National Forest, A Sesquicentennial Journey 20052008 Letter from the Commissioners, The Washburn - Nelson Senatorial Campaign of 1894-1895, Otnngrt51linnal Jtcnrd. 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. He did manage to turn a sitting U.S. senator into a paid mouthpiece for a foreign fascist government. Maddow: The deal that Viereck was offering to Senator Lundeen, it was a lucrative one. Darcy always has the most informative and entertaining articles. Young: Viereck is a spy for the German government, part of his responsibility being cozying up to those in power in U.S. politics to gather as much information as possible and to try to get them to do things that will forestall U.S. entry into the war. William Maloney was an experienced federal prosecutor. She told the staff that she wanted the Viereck files. His employees would get paid a salary by the Senate, but he would then demand that they hand over a portion of that salary back to him. 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. Hart: His initial idea is that he's going to have a U.S. And members of Congress, importantly, were able to do that for free. Note that he may make real-time changes to some of the exact language. Majority Leader, colleagues, families, guests here in the Capitol, and to the People of Colorado : Welcome. Education. And he was a high profile person. But Senator Lundeen was also someone who always had money on the mind. box 4, folder 6-8. Republican. 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. Well that material was supplied to Francis Moran by George Sylvester Viereck. He didn't just churn out propaganda and disinformation himself, although he did do plenty of that. They were mostly Republicans, but also some Democrats. Hart: This is a moment of great political danger, I think for these men. The Justice Department had failed to convict the members of the Christian Front who tried to overthrow the government. [2] Owing to the vote, he would lose renomination for the Republican primary in 1918 to the eventual winner, Walter Newton. quotations . The series is Executive Produced by myself and Mike Yarvitz, and it's produced by Kelsey Desiderio. This was Vierecks life's work. It was the last name of a guy: a guy named George Sylvester Viereck. 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. 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. We face challenges too big to ignore and opportunities too important to fumble. He served from January 3, 1937, in the 75th and 76th Congresses until his death. A recession appears to be at our shared doorstep and the government continues to grow faster than family budgets. 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 The charming 46-year-old widow waged a relatively low-key campaign, quietly yet passionately defending her late husbands record and promising an all-out prosecution of the war, all the while presciently warning the voters of Minnesota that the internationalists including the Farmer-Labor Partys own Elmer Benson would keep American troops in Europe, Africa and Asia following the war, thereby making the United States the policemen of the world. Lundeen might be dead, but George Sylvester Viereck was still out there. 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. Maddow: This turbocharged Viercks operation. [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. Maddow: This was the early 1940s. How many members of Congress were in on this thing? 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 Like the charter airplane accident that killed DFL Sen. Wellstone, his wife and daughter and four others near Eveleth, Minn., Oct. 25, 2002, the accident that took the life of the 62-year-old Lundeen changed the course of Minnesota and perhaps even American political history. 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. This statement is malicious and atrociously false. 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. I have beside me four photographs proving the truth of my statement. 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. Maddow: So Viereck would get pro-German speeches from the Hitler government, from the German embassy. (CROWD CHEERING AT MADISON SQUARE GARDEN). This list includes all current senators serving in the 118th United States Congress . Mr. 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. The term "senator" derives from Ancient Rome, where the Senate depicted the 'elders' assembly' ("senex" means [11], "Senator Lundeen" redirects here. The speech written for Sen. Ernest Lundeen by a paid Nazi agent. 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. [3] We face some tough issues this session, those empty shelves I mentioned earlier, unaffordable goods and services, crime, a struggling education system, soaring energy costs. I think we would say evil genius. 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 Occupation. Laws & Agency Rules. With Lundeen's help, a subcommittee of the Labor Committee heard testimony from 80 witnesses on the benefits of the bill and the suffering of the unemployed. Committee Assignments. Phone numbers are available on each state's page or on your senator's website. From Jan 1937 to Aug 1940, Lundeen missed 76 of 416 roll call votes, which is 18.3%. A special thanks to historian Bradley Hart. Maddow: This wasn't just pocket money, this was a whole new second stream of considerable income for the Senator. The cause of the mysterious crash was never She had a taste for flamboyant hats. 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. 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. 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. A letter Sen. Ernest Lundeen wrote to himself on the eve before he was sworn in to the United States Senate. To do that, within 2 days after the crash she travelled to his office in the Capitol to retrieve the "Viereck files". It tends to be our nature as politicians to launch into any debate at full throttle to tell everything we know about a matter. But Norma Lundeen was just getting warmed up. She was looking for something very specific. Fr nhere Informationen zur Nutzung Ihrer Daten lesen Sie bitte unsere Datenschutzerklrung und Cookie-Richtlinie. It is our duty that the voices of people who find themselves in the minority in this season of Colorados history be heard and shared. The composition and powers of the Senate are established by Article One of the United States Constitution. January 17, 2023 at 11:16 a.m. Below are the remarks as delivered by Gov. That said, it's a longshot because, as Greg Brophy explained on today's show, the GOP would have to win 6 of the 7 currently contested seats. Lundeens candidacy had as much or more to do with clearing her husbands name than in actually winning his Senate seat. Lundeen, who had been active in the America First Committee, was never a serious factor in the primary. Again, this was less than 48 hours after the crash that killed her husband. But what prosecutor William Power Maloney actually found during that raid, it set him back on his heels. Those of us charged with the burden of representing the peoples interests face a dilemma. And even beyond going after reporters, Norma denied what was inarguably clear to anyone with eyes. This is on par with the median of 17.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving Maddow: In the wake of the plane crash that killed Minnesota U.S. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Our Web Producer is Will Femia. Sound design by Tarek Fouda. She threatened to sue one radio journalist who had reported a story about her late husband. 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. At the time of his death, the FBI was investigating Lundeen's ties to George Sylvester Viereck, a top Nazi spy working in the US to spread pro-Hitler and anti-Semitic propaganda. near Lovettsville, Virginia and all 25 persons on board were killed, including Senator Lundeen. But that was only step one. [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. Environments We help to create collaborative learning spaces. She did not want the photos of his kids off his desk. The speech One of those photographs was taken at such an angle as to convey the impression that my husband was standing beneath the swastika. The election is behind us, and we honor the result. 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." We must not use the resources and mechanisms of state government in a way that encumbers our grandchildren with a burden that cripples their future economy or saddles those precious souls with a debt they can never repay. He served from January 3. He was trying to sow dissension among the American public about the war effort and about our own system of government, to spread misinformation that was favorable to Germany and disfavorable to us and our allies. Lundeen was elected to the United States Senate in 1936 as a member of the Farmer-Labor Party. In 1896, Lundeen and his family moved to Harcourt, Iowa, and then to Minnesota. Senator Ernest Lundeen, a scandalous story had begun to unspool about how the Senator was tangled up with a Nazi agent. It immediately led them to start wondering: Were they next? She also went right after the journalists who she said were responsible for the smears against him. We care about the quality and flexibility of your childs education that is so important to their future success. It was disbanded when Derrick was only six, after that grouchy old ultra-Libertarian Senator Timothy de Illy In fact, politics has become extremely noisy. Young: The relationship that the two of them come up with is that Viereck will function as speech writer for Lundeen. It was direct documentary evidence that the Senator had been colluding with a Nazi agent. To make up for lost time, to get out from behind the eight ball, the Attorney General finally decided to appoint a special prosecutor, someone to start paying attention to these kinds of threats to our democracy. He was something close to famous for his opposition to World War I. Senate probe These speeches would run as articles, under Lundeens byline, as if the senator had written them himself. Library of Congress Engineer: Cut B-4 sounds like a dynamite record. And some Americans didnt need much persuading. The bill embodied a far-reaching unemployment insurance and social insurance program formulated by the Communist Party in 1930 and openly and vigorously advocated by the party for the next several years. 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. 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. 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 was one of 50 representatives to vote against the declaration of war against Germany on April 6, 1917. Jared Poliss office. Minority Leader. Maddow: George Syvester Viereck, as a highly-paid, highly-ranked agent of Hitlers government, he had his marching orders. Ernest Lundeen of the Minnesota Senate in the 76 congress. The biggest names really in Republican congressional politics, they all fall under the spell of this sort of Nazi propaganda operation. I warn the American people that we cannot defend America by defending old, decadent, and dying empires. Norma had an answer for that. And yet we must not mislead ourselves into believing that the government can solve all problems. Sitting members of Congress, and the America First movement, take part in an elaborate scheme to subvert democracy. He was. Maddow: Once George Viereck was arrested, the members of Congress who had participated in this scheme, they knew that prosecutors were onto them. And in more ways than one. Viereck needed to reach large numbers of Americans, to start turning the tide of public opinion away from U.S. interests and towards Germany. The wreckage of the Pennsylvania Central Airlines plane, which crashed during a violent thunderstorm near Lovettsville on August 31, 1940. Radio Announcer: Youre about to hear an address delivered before a meeting of the America First Committee. box 4, folder 4-5. Together we must find balance in our discussions and a willingness to look to that far horizon. Kelsey Desiderio: How many Americans were actually receiving Nazi propaganda in their mailboxes as a result of this scheme? Watch the full interview with state Sen. Paul Lundeen about the future of the GOP in Colorado on Colorado Point of View this Sunday at 7:30 a.m. on Channel 2. The Colorado Senate is just three seats away from a conservative check on the out-of-control Democrat agenda. 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. 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. When ore is blasted by the heat of the crucible it is refined into something precious. 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. 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. His work ethic, persistence, and principled defense of gun-rights makes this endorsement simple. May God bless the work we undertake today with wisdom and a spirit of joy and understanding. Rachel Maddow: A mission which is unprecedented in radio broadcasting. Kinda sounds like melodramatic radio-age hyperbole, I know. 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. Its a Congressional privilege thats called franking, which still exists today. 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. Archival support from Holly Klopchin. And then it was Moran and his chapter of the Christian Front that so energetically distributed it. In fact, to conclude that all the solutions lie in government action is false on its face and the highest order of misguided hubris. [3], Lundeen was elected to the United States Senate in 1936 as a member of the Farmer-Labor Party. Disc 20612 Side A from Box T41-26. 513 Hart Senate Office Building. The bill was narrowly voted out of the Labor Committee, but it was killed by House leadership, which wanted no competition for Wagner-Lewis. The plane crashed. 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. The previous 12 months had shown that the federal government, time and again, was behind the eight ball when it came to this gathering threat at home from the ultra-right the plotting and planning of extremists in this country who were inclined towards violence and, in many cases, hooked up with the Hitler government. A note pinned to the speech Sen. Ernest Lundeen was carrying the day he died, describing how the manuscript was found 100 yards from the scene of the crash. in Episode one, features Senator Lundeen, the plane crash, and more. The history books remember the senators widow as a tall, confident, well-spoken woman. Thanks for sharing this interesting article about Norma Lundeen. Radio Reporter: George Sylvester Viereck, the man who has been prominent for several years as a Nazi propagandist. IE 11 is not supported. And she knew that she herself had just hidden away the evidence that would prove it. She said it was a big misunderstanding. 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.. But the woman behind the mic that day, she was someone who was in a unique and interesting situation. 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. Probably too big a lift but I'm keeping my fingers crossed. In the immediate wake of her husbands death, Norma Lundeen had a good reason for wanting that correspondence to never see the light of day. These coming years will likely be tough on the people of Colorado, and only through bipartisan cooperation, and reasoned application of the best and most inherently sustainable ideas, will we be able to overcome the challenges all of us face. Senator Ernest Lundeen and George Sylvester Viereck were old friends. All accusations of this nature are emphatically denied in the letters of the Attorney General Jackson and J. Edgar Hoover. senado. Darcy could be President if he listens to me. Post something that gets attention and likes and shares and viral explosion, or post something that informs, even if it informs people of something theyd prefer not to hear. 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. Hart: We believe it's millions of Americans. Maddow: After the plane crash that killed her husband, Norma Lundeen traveled to Washington D.C. Senator spreading Nazi propaganda or anti-war propaganda on the floor of the Senate. That's Viereck's portfolio from Germany. 2. in ancient Rome, the chief legislative and administrative body. Viereck wrote Lundeen's speeches. 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 Senator Ernest Lundeen: I have never heard a German, or a German born American, with the gall to ask that we help Germany, but red, yellow, brown, black and white Former Minnesota senator Ernest Lundeens story of suspected sedition is back in the headlines thanks to a new podcast. We wont be able to fix every problem this state faces during these next 119 days. And I think that for some, playing footsie with fascists was a good idea, they thought. The Latin word senator was adopted into English with no change in spelling. 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"). Failure to address these issues risks leaving our grandchildren to face a parched, unlivable, ignorant existence. William Maloney had managed to run up an eye-popping, 400-to-nothing record as a prosecutor there. The senator would not say why. 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. Senator with a quite literal German agent of influence sitting in his office, writing speeches for him, writing pieces that are paid pieces. 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. A senator is someone who is elected in the central legislative body of a state (usually it concerns the upper, more prominent chamber of Parliament), by voters of a region or other territorial district, and fulfills this governing mandate for a number of years, according to the law. Maddow: Norma Lundeen made her case, defending her husband passionately and directly to the public. 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. Young: Republicans are just feeling very defeated as if theres nothing that they can do to stop Roosevelt. 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. WITNESS SAYS HILL USED LUNDEEN FRANK; Mrs. Spielman Testifies Viereck Wrote Speeches for Senator. He should write books or something! American tax payers were paying for Nazi propaganda with American tax dollars. Options for Contacting Senators. 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. January 17, 2023 at 11:16 a.m. Below are the remarks as delivered by Gov. 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. 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. 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. 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. For most of our customisable plastic, metal writing instruments and drinkware, the enitre value chain - from design and production, including tool manufacture through to assembly, printing and logistics - is located in-house. 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