[4], His isolationist views led him to be sympathetic to Nazi Germany. The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. A box containing Sen. Ernest Lundeen's records and papers at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives at Stanford University. The Justice Department had failed to convict the members of the Christian Front who tried to overthrow the government. 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. 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. Viereck's plan was working. That was all she asked for. Party. He did manage to turn a sitting U.S. senator into a paid mouthpiece for a foreign fascist government. Darcy could be President if he listens to me. Paul is a conservative fighter focused on protecting school choice, the 2nd amendment, and making Colorado more affordable. That's a charitable way of putting it. Because apparently it wasn't just this one Senator, this one recently-deceased Senator Ernest Lundeen who had been involved. 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. Darcy always has the most informative and entertaining articles. The history books remember the senators widow as a tall, confident, well-spoken woman. The series is Executive Produced by myself and Mike Yarvitz, and it's produced by Kelsey Desiderio. President, Mr. 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. 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 other members of Congress, that band of America Firsters who were all in on it, too, they were still flying under the radar. The handwritten note at the top was added by his widow, Norma. Senator Ernest Lundeen in a mysterious plane crash in 1940 left a series of questions that lead to revealing threats to American democracy. 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. Majority Leader, colleagues, families, guests here in the Capitol, and to the People of Colorado : Welcome. He supplied high-profile and low-profile members of the America First movement coast-to-coast. 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.. Leadership Position. All of those members of Congress tied up in Vierecks scheme, all of them were associated with something called the America First movement. 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 The Senate Republican caucus eagerly awaits the opportunity to help achieve solutions that will benefit all Coloradans. Maddow: The Viereck files. One of those photographs was taken at such an angle as to convey the impression that my husband was standing beneath the swastika. 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. Filter members by last name, committee, district number, or party (type (D) (R) for party): Home Page. 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. 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 Armed with that information, William Maloney took action. Many were Communists, including Party chairman Earl Browder. And random people dont just get to jump on a national radio broadcast whenever they feel like they have something to say. Photo of Minnesota Sen. Ernest Lundeen, April 1940. Amateurs were turning this stuff up, not the authorities. 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 [2] Owing to the vote, he would lose renomination for the Republican primary in 1918 to the eventual winner, Walter Newton. Much broader. in Episode one, features Senator Lundeen, the plane crash, and more. Despite the loud protests of the senators widow, Norma Lundeen, on the radio her threats to sue reporters into submission, her attempts to gaslight the American people that her husband wasnt really standing in front of the swastika despite all of that, the details of her husbands relationship with this Nazi agent, those details began to get out. Senator Ernest Lundeen would then deliver those speeches on the floor of the Senate, enter them into the Congressional Record. Justice Department Prosecutor William Power Maloney had identified the threat. It was all the correspondence between him and a man named George Sylvester Viereck. Viereck would then order Lundeens staff to print off gazillions of copies of those speeches, which would then be sent in pre-paid government envelopes to unwitting members of the public. And then it was Moran and his chapter of the Christian Front that so energetically distributed it. [6] Lundeen said the experience was "astounding" and that the test showed that American ship designers "need bow to none. The members or legislators of a senate are called senators. Probably too big a lift but I'm keeping my fingers crossed. Senator Ernest Lundeen, a scandalous story had begun to unspool about how the Senator was tangled up with a Nazi agent. Maddow: And that right there, that is where Norma Lundeen slipped up. She asked them to give her the Viereck files and she took them away with her. Norma Lundeen: A number of photographs of my husband were taken while he was speaking. Senator Paul Lundeen is a longtime defender of individual liberties, including those protected by the Second Amendment. 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. In fact, to conclude that all the solutions lie in government action is false on its face and the highest order of misguided hubris. 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. All eyes were briefly on Lundeen. He wanted this propaganda effort to have a broader reach. He didn't just churn out propaganda and disinformation himself, although he did do plenty of that. It tends to be our nature as politicians to launch into any debate at full throttle to tell everything we know about a matter. near Lovettsville, Virginia and all 25 persons on board were killed, including Senator Lundeen. 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. 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. 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. So with the current anti-democracy campaign intended to NazifyAmerica (and you know which orange figureheadand faithless political party thisinvolves, as with RepublicanSenator Lundeen in 1940), Rachel Maddow's new podcast Ultra(which premiered today!) This episode was written by myself, Mike Yarvitz, and Kelsey Desiderio. 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"). 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. senate. elected to the Senate in 1936 as a member of the Farmer-Labor Party. His base of operations the center of American democracy itself the United States Congress. Maddow: This wasn't just pocket money, this was a whole new second stream of considerable income for the Senator. When wheat is fed into the thresher the chaff blows away. President, Mr. So when federal agents raided the publicist's apartment that day, what they expected to find was a bunch of stuff involving Ernest Lundeen. The thick-lipped Viereck, who reportedly earned more than $100,000 singing the praises of Adolf Hitler while excoriating the British, was later indicted by a grand jury shortly after the devastating sneak attack on Pearl Harbor and was subsequently convicted on charges that he had deliberately concealed information when he registered as an agent of a foreign government. 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. 513 Hart Senate Office Building. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. Maddow: Norma Lundeen made her case, defending her husband passionately and directly to the public. 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. box 4, folder 6-8. But Senator Lundeen was also someone who always had money on the mind. Challenges faced by all. May 18, 1941, 11:30 to 11:45pm, the NBC Blue Network. They were all in on the cause. Young: Once Lundeen was approached by Viereck, Lundeen was all in. 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. The book on your desk has the subtitle of talking politics without the noise. It offers each side of the aisle the ability, at least in some small way, to seek first to understand before seeking to be understood. This statement is malicious and atrociously false. Senator Paul Lundeen. Radio Reporter: Senator Ernest Lundeen reported killed today in the crash of a Pennsylvania central airlines plane. Nazis in America: FDR 1940 and the 'Trump Era' Send any friend a story. She was looking for something very specific. He felt the United States had become a great power because Global Reach The speech written for Sen. Ernest Lundeen by a paid Nazi agent. Not yet. Bradley Hart: His initial idea is that he's going to have a US Senator spreading Nazi propaganda on the floor of the Senate. They funneled millions and millions of dollars through him and his various U.S. efforts on behalf of the German government. Lundeen was carrying these pages when he died, and they were found near the scene of the plane crash. Failure to address these issues risks leaving our grandchildren to face a parched, unlivable, ignorant existence. Well that material was supplied to Francis Moran by George Sylvester Viereck. Maddow: Do you remember Francis Moran, the leader of the Christian Front in Boston? Jared Poliss office. Senate. I realize you have precious little time to read another item at this moment, so its more of a placeholder for a conversation. 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. The Republican caucus in this chamber can, and I believe will, make a fundamental difference. The twelve Republican senators seated in this chamber were also elected by the hard-working people who call Colorado home. Norma Lundeen: Ladies and gentlemen, I come to you on a mission which is unprecedented in radio broadcasting. I have been asked, can a team of twelve, the minority caucus in this august chamber make a difference? 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. Options for Contacting Senators. senado. January 17, 2023 at 11:16 a.m. Below are the remarks as delivered by Gov. But no. Maddow: Millions of Americans. Senator have been manufacturing at our technology plant in Gro-Bieberau for 100 years. He should write books or something! IE 11 is not supported. But we are intent to do more than just talk. All of us face a water shortage crisis that will desiccate our grandchildrens future unless we are serious about storing the precious resources to which we are legally entitled. 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. To Senators Pelton (Byron and Rod), [] 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. These difficult conversations can be noisy. ( sent) noun. Majority Leader, colleagues, families, guests here in the Capitol, and to the People of Colorado : Welcome. Together we must find balance in our discussions and a willingness to look to that far horizon. Our Technical Director is Bryson Barnes. Senator Ernest Lundeen and George Sylvester Viereck were old friends. The ship reached a maximum speed of 40 knots, came to a complete stop in 58 seconds, and then travelled in reverse at 20knots. 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. The United States Senate consists of 100 members, two from each of the 50 states. 25 people were killed, including Minnesota Sen. Ernest Lundeen. Hart: America First becomes a grab bag of everything, anti-Roosevelt. But for this scheme to be truly successful, Viereck needed his propaganda to go beyond Senator Lundeens reach with his constituents in Minnesota. Thanks for sharing this interesting article about Norma Lundeen. We wont be able to fix every problem this state faces during these next 119 days. The speech He needed more pre-paid envelopes. But besides their connection to this German foreign agent, they did all have one other thing in common. Millions of Americans receive pro-Nazi, anti-interventionist content in this period. Maddow: The deal that Viereck was offering to Senator Lundeen, it was a lucrative one. 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. Envelopes bearing the names of Senators Rush Holt and Senator Burton Wheeler and Congressman Clare Hoffman, and all sorts of others. In 1906 he was admitted to the bar. 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. Declaring her candidacy shortly before the states filing deadline, Lundeens last-minute entry created a three-way race for the Farmer-Labor Partys U.S. Senate nomination, forcing former Gov. And sometimes they did. 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." You will experience the difference in the way this body and the broader General Assembly takes on and talks about issues. And we have a responsibility to represent our constituents, as well as the principles of individual freedom, the wisdom of crowds, or said another way, market forces, and a constrained government that animates creativity among the people, and of course we have a burden to hear and amplify the voices of people from every corner of Colorado. Again, this was less than 48 hours after the crash that killed her husband. Republican. Hart: What Viereck does is he combines this incredible power of essentially unlimited copies of the congressional record printed at government expense, envelopes that are pre-franked, could be mailed a government expense. It went on for years, right up until the day Lundeen died with one of Vierecks speeches in his pocket. The composition and powers of the Senate are established by Article One of the United States Constitution. What we do: We create products for those who want to make their mark. This is on par with the median of 17.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving Mrs. Ernest Lundeen speaks and apparently she's speaking in reply to certain statements about her husband made by Walter Winchell in his broadcast. 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. She also went right after the journalists who she said were responsible for the smears against him. Together we face some persistent problems and it is likely that new challenges will arise. Inventory of Art in the Minnesota State Capitol March 2013, Politics Among Danish Americans in the Midwest, Ca. Education. Here are historians Nancy Beck Young and Bradley Hart. January 17, 2023 at 11:16 a.m. Below are the remarks as delivered by Gov. 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