We care about the quality and flexibility of your childs education that is so important to their future success. That's a charitable way of putting it. Paul Lundeen is the Republican Colorado Senator for District 9. Maddow: Norma contacted the news networks directly, demanding that they put a gag on any journalist who wanted to talk about her late husband. 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. Senator Bob Rankin Announces his Resignation Dec 1, The term "senator" derives from Ancient Rome, where the Senate depicted the 'elders' assembly' ("senex" means This is a deliberate falsehood designed to mislead. Note that he may make real-time changes to some of the exact language. Her name was Norma. 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. He wanted this propaganda effort to have a broader reach. 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Send any friend a story. Maddow: Senator Lundeen had built his career on being outspoken against the US joining foreign wars. Yes! 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. Maddow: The scale of this operation, it kind of takes your breath away. 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. 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 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. Hed never lost a case. This is on par with the median of 17.7% among the lifetime records of senators serving I think we would say evil genius. States in the Senate Lists of all senators from each state and facts about each state's history in the U.S. Senate. And while he was doing that, he was also wheedling his way into the heart of American power. 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. ICPSR #5839 That's when he had first gotten to know Viereck. She was looking for something very specific. 513 Hart Senate Office Building. 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. She also went right after the journalists who she said were responsible for the smears against him. The death of U.S. Phone: (202) 224-2441. 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. 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: The deal that Viereck was offering to Senator Lundeen, it was a lucrative one. Lundeen was elected to the United States Senate in 1936 as a member of the Farmer-Labor Party. senado. Millions of Americans receive pro-Nazi, anti-interventionist content in this period. To the People of Colorado: We care about your familys ability to get aheadnot just survive. One of those photographs was taken at such an angle as to convey the impression that my husband was standing beneath the swastika. Radio Reporter: Senator Ernest Lundeen reported killed today in the crash of a Pennsylvania central airlines plane. And George Sylvester Viereck was the top German agent in charge of executing that mission in the United States. 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. 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 series is Executive Produced by myself and Mike Yarvitz, and it's produced by Kelsey Desiderio. Maddow: This wasn't just pocket money, this was a whole new second stream of considerable income for the Senator. He graduated from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, in 1901 and then studied law at the University of Minnesota Law School. 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 Maddow: The Viereck files. Maddow: One of the reasons Viereck operated so successfully for so long had something to do with the way he did business. A copy of the Congressional Record from 1940, containing Sen. Ernest Lundeen's last speech on the floor of the Senate. Note that he may make real-time changes to some of the exact language. The United States Senate is the upper chamber of the United States Congress, with the House of Representatives being the lower chamber. She said it was a big misunderstanding. They were all in on the cause. 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. [6] Lundeen said the experience was "astounding" and that the test showed that American ship designers "need bow to none. Lundeen was adamantly opposed to the United States involvement in World War I and campaigned on that stance. 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 later made a dramatic plea for justice for her late husbands memory, but was denied an opportunity to speak directly to the jury. And theyd get paid for it. 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. These allegations were being reported by crusading journalists, some of them with national reach. Covering Third Parties and Independent Candidates Since 2008. The members or legislators of a senate are called senators. 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"). Requests for Senator Lundeen's speech "Six 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. Senator Paul Lundeen. Ernest Lundeen of the Minnesota Senate in the 76 congress. 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. 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. Madeleine Haeringer is our Head of Editorial. Now, that was unusual because she did not work for NBC. Amateurs were turning this stuff up, not the authorities. These difficult conversations can be noisy. But his biggest, boldest, most successful operation, is the one he ran from the seat of American democracy itself. They were all being held in that D.C. apartment raided by William Maloney that day. He basically operated in plain sight in the United States for years. Hart: So what Viereck has done is he's realized that there's a way to game the American Congressional system against itself. It immediately led them to start wondering: Were they next? Justice Department Prosecutor William Power Maloney had identified the threat. Radio Reporter: George Sylvester Viereck, the man who has been prominent for several years as a Nazi propagandist. There was no Facebook, no Twitter, there was no news on TV. 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. Legislature Home > Senate >. How far did it go? 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. The plane crashed. And then it was Moran and his chapter of the Christian Front that so energetically distributed it. And I think that for some, playing footsie with fascists was a good idea, they thought. 2. in ancient Rome, the chief legislative and administrative body. 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. 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 Maddow: The widow of Senator Ernest Lundeen. IE 11 is not supported. From Jan 1937 to Aug 1940, Lundeen missed 76 of 416 roll call votes, which is 18.3%. 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. 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. Jared Poliss office. And random people dont just get to jump on a national radio broadcast whenever they feel like they have something to say. We insist to be full participants in the legislative process in this chamber, and will offer our best, constructive suggestions for making the future laws of this state better. 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." He was under federal investigation for, effectively, colluding with a hostile foreign power. 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. From both parties. And some Americans didnt need much persuading. The Republican caucus in this chamber can, and I believe will, make a fundamental difference. Here at Senator we create products that set the stage for people to do amazing things. 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. Paul is a conservative fighter focused on protecting school choice, the 2nd amendment, and making Colorado more affordable. And then in the run-up to World War II, he was basically the poster child in the Senate for leaving Germany alone to just do its thing. Norma Lundeen: I am the widow of Ernest Lundeen, United States senator from Minnesota, who was killed in an airplane crash on August 31, 1940. 25 people were killed, including Minnesota Sen. Ernest Lundeen. He not only votes the right way but he fights for other pro-gun leaders to be elected to defend the Second Amendment. 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. senator ( plural senators ) A member, normally elected, in the house or chamber of a legislature called a senate, as, for instance, the legislatures of the United States and Canada. A - Agriculture. A special thanks to historian Bradley Hart. It was all the correspondence between him and a man named George Sylvester Viereck. People are thinking my husband is on trial, she pleaded in an anguished voice. 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. But for this scheme to be truly successful, Viereck needed his propaganda to go beyond Senator Lundeens reach with his constituents in Minnesota. And sometimes they did. 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. Current Membership: Each Senator represents 931,349 Californians. Many were Communists, including Party chairman Earl Browder. Together we must find balance in our discussions and a willingness to look to that far horizon. box 4, folder 4-5. Material created by or approved by the Hitler government in Berlin, provided to viciously anti-Semitic groups, linked to both street violence against American Jews and also violent armed plots against the U.S. government; Viereck using kernels of disturbance here in American life to drive us apart from one another, to drive us apart from our allies, to destabilize life here at home, to scare us, to make fascism seem like it was on the march, and on its way here, and maybe we should welcome it. The speech written for Sen. Ernest Lundeen by a paid Nazi agent. The speech This was Vierecks life's work. Phone numbers are available on each state's page or on your senator's website. Toward that end, Ive put a fully amendment 41 compliant gift on each of your desks today. But Norma Lundeen was just getting warmed up. That was classic Viereck. But thats not exactly what Norma wanted to talk about when she stepped behind the mic that day. Senator Bob Rankin Announces his Resignation Dec 1, 2022 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. Senator. Our Technical Director is Bryson Barnes. 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. Senator Ernest Lundeen and George Sylvester Viereck were old friends. Fr nhere Informationen zur Nutzung Ihrer Daten lesen Sie bitte unsere Datenschutzerklrung und Cookie-Richtlinie. The handwritten note at the top was added by his widow, Norma. But he remained isolationist and was later denounced by the party as a reactionary. Hart: This was a closely guarded sort of set of correspondence that Norma Lundeen did not want out in the wider world. Maddow: So Viereck would get pro-German speeches from the Hitler government, from the German embassy. Nancy Beck Young: This group of people, if they were anything first, it was their own political success and careers first. Special Prosecutor William Power Maloney spoke of Viereck as one of the most serious menaces to this country. The plane, a Douglas DC-3, flew into turbulence from a thunderstorm. Durch Klicken auf Alle akzeptieren erklren Sie sich damit einverstanden, dass Yahoo und unsere Partner Ihre personenbezogenen Daten verarbeiten und Technologien wie Cookies nutzen, um personalisierte Anzeigen und Inhalte zu zeigen, zur Messung von Anzeigen und Inhalten, um mehr ber die Zielgruppe zu erfahren sowie fr die Entwicklung von Produkten. 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. He supplied high-profile and low-profile members of the America First movement coast-to-coast. I have been asked, can a team of twelve, the minority caucus in this august chamber make a difference? This promises to be good. 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. He served in the Minnesota House of Representatives 191114. Maddow: After the plane crash that killed her husband, Norma Lundeen traveled to Washington D.C. The saying in this body is that the minority gets their say, and the majority gets their way. She had a taste for flamboyant hats. As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. Maddow: William Power Maloney arrested and indicted George Sylvester Viereck. Senator spreading Nazi propaganda or anti-war propaganda on the floor of the Senate. Long forgotten, Norman Lundeen Holman the wife of two U.S. Lundeen cited a 2022 bill Polis signed that, he said, allowed for restrictive environmental building codes that raise housing costs. Its meaning is derived from a very ancient form of social organization, in which advisory or decision-making powers are reserved for the eldest men. Thanks for sharing this interesting article about Norma Lundeen. William Maloney had managed to run up an eye-popping, 400-to-nothing record as a prosecutor there. Armed with that information, William Maloney took action. The cause of the mysterious crash was never It hadnt even been a year since her husband had died in that terrible, mysterious plane crash. Bold. One reason is: adversity has a clarifying effect. He should write books or something! Norma had an answer for that. That's Viereck's portfolio from Germany. 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. Senator Paul Lundeen is a longtime defender of individual liberties, including those protected by the Second Amendment. Senate probe Coloradans remain optimistic. Republican. Well that material was supplied to Francis Moran by George Sylvester Viereck. When this war is over, she asserted on the campaign trail, we must insist that our sons be returned to America. If the internationalists prevailed, she cautioned repeatedly, the United States would soon find itself entangled in continuous intrigue around the globe, one in which the American people would eventually lose control of their own country and find their own children pushed out of their cradle of liberty.. With additional sound from CBS News. 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. Hart: It's really a scheme of, of genius in some ways. [11] It was later discovered that the files were actually stored in the Lundeen family archives. Maddow: Do you remember Francis Moran, the leader of the Christian Front in Boston? Elmer A. Benson, a vehement left-winger who was heavily favored to win the primary, to fend off challenges from two unapologetic nationalists in what amounted to the partys last hurrah. (One of the most successful third parties in American history, Minnesotas Farmer-Labor Party merged with the Democrats in the spring of 1944.). To do that, within 2 days after the crash she travelled to his office in the Capitol to retrieve the "Viereck files". IE 11 is not supported. Norma Lundeen: Ladies and gentlemen, I come to you on a mission which is unprecedented in radio broadcasting. Norma Lundeen: Innuendos have been made that a certain individual wrote my husbands speeches. box 4, folder 6-8. senador. Most of Ernest Lundeen's brothers and sisters died during a diphtheria epidemic during the 1880s. The prosecutor who was appointed was named William Power Maloney. 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. Former Minnesota senator Ernest Lundeens story of suspected sedition is back in the headlines thanks to a new podcast. 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. Maddow: It was just a bad angle. He was very good at it. It is a tradition in this building to claim that this policy or that piece of legislation is bi-partisan. Maddow: In the year following the death of Senator Ernest Lundeen, newspaper and radio journalists began to figure out what exactly Lundeen had been up to with this German agent, George Viereck. America First Committee. Environments We help to create collaborative learning spaces. 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. 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. When wheat is fed into the thresher the chaff blows away. 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. He didn't just churn out propaganda and disinformation himself, although he did do plenty of that. We face challenges too big to ignore and opportunities too important to fumble. He did manage to turn a sitting U.S. senator into a paid mouthpiece for a foreign fascist government. She told the staff that she wanted the Viereck files. Senator have been manufacturing at our technology plant in Gro-Bieberau for 100 years. Remember the thousands and thousands of Nazi propaganda books and leaflets and pamphlets that he disseminated all over Boston and the Northeast? 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. Modern-day photo of the field in Lovettsville, Virginia where Trip 19 crashed in 1940, killing all 25 passengers on board. Norma Lundeen: The dead cannot be hurt by vilification. 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. 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. To Senators Pelton (Byron and Rod), [] In part because everyone who choosesand most politicians chooseown a broadcast channel. Majority Leader, colleagues, families, guests here in the Capitol, and to the People of Colorado : Welcome. Maddow: This turbocharged Viercks operation. Hart: He realizes very quickly that one Senator isn't enough here. A box containing Sen. Ernest Lundeen's records and papers at the Hoover Institution Library & Archives at Stanford University. 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.\". Legislative Council. House of Representatives. Viereck supplied the Christian Front and other violent ultra-right groups around the country. 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. 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. 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. Young: This group of people, if they were anything first, it was their own political success and careers first. Kelsey Desiderio: How many Americans were actually receiving Nazi propaganda in their mailboxes as a result of this scheme? 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. 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 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. We wont be able to fix every problem this state faces during these next 119 days. Hart: America First becomes a grab bag of everything, anti-Roosevelt. President, Mr. Failure to address these issues risks leaving our grandchildren to face a parched, unlivable, ignorant existence. Klicken Sie auf Einstellungen verwalten um weitere Informationen zu erhalten und Ihre Einstellungen zu verwalten. Those of us charged with the burden of representing the peoples interests face a dilemma. Senator Ernest Lundeen would then deliver those speeches on the floor of the Senate, enter them into the Congressional Record. senator noun. 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. He was. A paid agent of Hitler's government ramps up a targeted propaganda effort aimed at weakening democracy and supporting the fascist cause in America. 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. 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