His work, his identity, it really wasnt a secret. She said it was a big misunderstanding. 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. 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, a Douglas DC-3, flew into turbulence from a thunderstorm. Two years after failing to win her late husbands seat in the U.S. Senate, Lundeen remarried, tying the knot with U.S. Sen. Rufus C. Holman of Oregon in a simple ceremony in Minneapolis during the summer of 1944. 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." This is on par with the median of 17.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving Our Technical Director is Bryson Barnes. 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 But for this scheme to be truly successful, Viereck needed his propaganda to go beyond Senator Lundeens reach with his constituents in Minnesota. January 17, 2023 at 11:16 a.m. Below are the remarks as delivered by Gov. 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. She also went right after the journalists who she said were responsible for the smears against him. The speech written for Sen. Ernest Lundeen by a paid Nazi agent. As a matter of fact, he was standing under the stars and stripes. Services Learn more about Sustain. He was fully capable of writing his own, and he wrote his own. In part because everyone who choosesand most politicians chooseown a broadcast channel. There were newspapers, the radio, newsreels at the movies, and then there was the mail. 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. And he was a high profile person. 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. 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. Maddow: George Syvester Viereck, as a highly-paid, highly-ranked agent of Hitlers government, he had his marching orders. Program for the funeral service of Sen. Ernest Lundeen on September 4, 1940, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Maddow: In the wake of the plane crash that killed Minnesota U.S. No one wrote my husband's speeches. 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!) The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. Archival support from Holly Klopchin. President, Mr. Laundering millions of pieces of Nazi propaganda through Congress and into the hands of the American people. All of us face a season of rising crime that will continue to expand unless we commit to a culture that honors law and law enforcement. 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. The bill was narrowly voted out of the Labor Committee, but it was killed by House leadership, which wanted no competition for Wagner-Lewis. Maddow: George Sylvester Viereck was an agent working on behalf of the fascist government in Germany. 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. So now we launch into 120 days of policy and politics. A box containing Sen. Ernest Lundeen's records and papers at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives at Stanford University. He was kind of their top banana here. 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 speech That's when he had first gotten to know Viereck. But it's almost something from a James Bond film. The Senate Republican caucus eagerly awaits the opportunity to help achieve solutions that will benefit all Coloradans. Each state in the US elects two senators who serve six-year terms in Washington, DC, where they pass laws and vote on policies. Here are historians Nancy Beck Young and Bradley Hart. This list includes all current senators serving in the 118th United States Congress . She had essentially just been handed the airwaves at NBC, at the National Broadcasting Company, set loose to say whatever she wanted. [6] Lundeen said the experience was "astounding" and that the test showed that American ship designers "need bow to none. Just a misunderstanding. ( sometimes abbreviated to Sen. in titles) a member of a lawmaking senate. Minority Leader. Hart: What we know is true is that Viereck is receiving much of the material for these speeches from the German embassy itself. I was hoping to give a different, larger, not longer but larger, speech from a different location; about 15 feet back and about 7 feet higher. 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. The series is Executive Produced by myself and Mike Yarvitz, and it's produced by Kelsey Desiderio. 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. Maddow: This was the early 1940s. He was one of 50 representatives to vote against the declaration of war against Germany on April 6, 1917. View all links. The United States Senate consists of 100 members, two from each of the 50 states. Mr. 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. 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. Maddow: The scale of this operation, it kind of takes your breath away. According to the secretary, Ive gone too far to turn back, was about all Lundeen said. Lundeen was adamantly opposed to the United States involvement in World War I and campaigned on that stance. Viereck's plan was working. But no. [10] Within the year after the tragedy, the story that Lundeen's speeches have been written by Viereck had been reported by several journalists. 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. Mrs. Ernest Lundeen speaks and apparently she's speaking in reply to certain statements about her husband made by Walter Winchell in his broadcast. A paid agent of Hitler's government ramps up a targeted propaganda effort aimed at weakening democracy and supporting the fascist cause in America. 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. The term "senator" derives from Ancient Rome, where the Senate depicted the 'elders' assembly' ("senex" means Party. Hart: America First becomes a grab bag of everything, anti-Roosevelt. 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. [11], "Senator Lundeen" redirects here. noun [ C ] uk / sen..t r/ us / sen..t / (written abbreviation Sen.) a politician who has been elected to a Senate: Only two senators voted He was gonna need more Senators. Senator Ernest Lundeen in a mysterious plane crash in 1940 left a series of questions that lead to revealing threats to American democracy. And in more ways than one. quotations . 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. When ore is blasted by the heat of the crucible it is refined into something precious. Addresses for each senator can be found on the senator's website or state's web page. And some Americans didnt need much persuading. That evidence would not stay hidden forever. Phone: (202) 224-2441. IE 11 is not supported. 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. But Norma Lundeen was just getting warmed up. 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. The letter reads: "May I be a senator after Wash [ington] and What was Hitler trying to do? 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. From both parties. In that demand for the papers, there is what could be read as an acknowledgement of guilt. I think we would say evil genius. 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. But he remained isolationist and was later denounced by the party as a reactiona He served from January 3. Her name was Norma. 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. Armed with that information, William Maloney took action. And she knew that she herself had just hidden away the evidence that would prove it. But his biggest, boldest, most successful operation, is the one he ran from the seat of American democracy itself. 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. [3] Majority Leader, colleagues, families, guests here in the Capitol, and to the People of Colorado : Welcome. He said a lot of aspirational things about making Colorado better," said Senate Minority Leader Paul Lundeen. The plane crashed. How far did it go? 2003, Olga Gardner Galvin, The Alphabet Challenge, Page 31. To do that, within 2 days after the crash she travelled to his office in the Capitol to retrieve the "Viereck files". Former Minnesota senator Ernest Lundeens story of suspected sedition is back in the headlines thanks to a new podcast. 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. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. The plane crashed near Lovettsville, Virginia, and all 25 persons on board were killed. But the woman behind the mic that day, she was someone who was in a unique and interesting situation. Senator Patricia Billie Miller Senator Miller represents Darien and Stamford. Lundeens candidacy had as much or more to do with clearing her husbands name than in actually winning his Senate seat. 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. The senator would not say why. Despite Norma's best efforts, the secret was getting out in the press and, soon, in court. 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. The speech written for Sen. Ernest Lundeen by a paid Nazi agent. William Maloney was an experienced federal prosecutor. [11] It was later discovered that the files were actually stored in the Lundeen family archives. Senator with a quite literal German agent of influence sitting in his office, writing speeches for him, writing pieces that are paid pieces. Again, this was less than 48 hours after the crash that killed her husband. But the speaker was in fact doing something unusual. He needed to reach millions of Americans. Together we must find balance in our discussions and a willingness to look to that far horizon. 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! 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. In the United States, senators are elected by voters to represent them in a state or federal senate. It was all the correspondence between him and a man named George Sylvester Viereck. The letter reads: "May I be a senator after Wash[ington] and Lincoln and under God (always for our America.)". As far as prosecutors could tell, this D.C. publicist, and Senator Ernest Lundeen, and Viereck the Nazi agent, theyd all been involved together in a scheme to secretly disseminate pro-Nazi disinformation and propaganda. Republican State Senator Paul Lundeen could be the next President of the State Senate if Republicans take the majority. [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. The history books remember the senators widow as a tall, confident, well-spoken woman. The application of one, or sometimes two members names, from the second party has been the accepted measure of that claim. Archival radio material is from NBC Newsvia the Library of Congress, which you really should visit. 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. Have a news tip, press release, or another story that you think we should cover? 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. It is those who love the dead, and who all the years of their lives will bear his name with pride, they are the ones who feel the force of the dagger driven into the back of the dead. Viereck would supply this material, supply these speeches to Lundeen, Lundeen would take them and read them verbatim on the floor of the Senate. The word senator has been used All eyes were briefly on Lundeen. 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 races all are expected to die for the British Empire. IE 11 is not supported. In fact, politics has become extremely noisy. What we can do is give space in every Coloradans life. Sound design by Tarek Fouda. It is almost unanimous, the people we represent, the whole people of Colorado, say they do NOT like polarized politics. Current Membership: Each Senator represents 931,349 Californians. The prosecutor who was appointed was named William Power Maloney. On the afternoon of August 31, 1940, Lundeen was a passenger on Flight 19 of Pennsylvania Central Airlines, flying from Washington to, Detroit. Space for freedom and opportunity, creativity and ingenuity, and access to support and connection to help when a season of life is so heavy as to overwhelm a fellow Coloradan. May God bless the work we undertake today with wisdom and a spirit of joy and understanding. Lundeens husband, who had been tragically killed in a plane crash near the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia two years earlier, was reportedly under investigation by the FBI at the time of his death. Legislature Home > Senate >. Filter members by last name, committee, district number, or party (type (D) (R) for party): Home Page. They funneled millions and millions of dollars through him and his various U.S. efforts on behalf of the German government. Norma Lundeen: The dead cannot be hurt by vilification. Modern-day photo of the field in Lovettsville, Virginia where Trip 19 crashed in 1940, killing all 25 passengers on board. [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. Sen. Ernest Lundeen is listed as passenger 15. In 1934, during the 73rd Congress, Lundeen sponsored the Workers' Unemployment Insurance Bill. Madeleine Haeringer is our Head of Editorial. Ernest Lundeen (August 4, 1878 August 31, 1940) was an American lawyer and politician. Programming card from NBC News Radio cataloguing Sen. Ernest Lundeen's appearances in 1940. A recession appears to be at our shared doorstep and the government continues to grow faster than family budgets. There are challenges. Hart: This is a moment of great political danger, I think for these men. They asserted that Lundeens speeches were bitterly anti-British and vigorously against American preparedness. Whether certain foreign agents figured that they were about to be exposed, whether G-men on the plane tangled with Lundeen on the flight, or whether it was an act of God and the weather may never be known, they declared. Manifest for Pennsylvania Central Airlines Flight 19 on August 31, 1940. Kelsey Desiderio: How many Americans were actually receiving Nazi propaganda in their mailboxes as a result of this scheme? I had not read about her or her husband before. They represented a bunch of different states, up and down the political spectrum. The members of Congress who were working with this Nazi agent, they were members of both the Senate and the House. Coloradans remain optimistic. And members of Congress, importantly, were able to do that for free. But we are intent to do more than just talk. Paul is a conservative fighter focused on protecting school choice, the 2nd amendment, and making Colorado more affordable. He should write books or something! Probably too big a lift but I'm keeping my fingers crossed. [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. Senator Paul Lundeen is a longtime defender of individual liberties, including those protected by the Second Amendment. Disc 20612 Side A from Box T41-26. 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. Senator Smith. Education. All of us face something completely unexpected in Coloradoempty store shelvesand runaway UNaffordability when we do find the products and services we seek. The election is behind us, and we honor the result. 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. Don't believe your lying eyes. Maddow: This wasn't just pocket money, this was a whole new second stream of considerable income for the Senator. Hart: So what Viereck has done is he's realized that there's a way to game the American Congressional system against itself. And the old-fashioned idea behind it is that members of Congress should easily be able to communicate with their voters back home about what theyre doing in Washington. And so, newly appointed by the Attorney General, William Power Maloney decided to move quickly. senado. They were all being held in that D.C. apartment raided by William Maloney that day. 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. Our Web Producer is Will Femia. 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. 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. 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