box 4, folder 6-8. All eyes were briefly on Lundeen. Program for the funeral service of Sen. Ernest Lundeen on September 4, 1940, in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Senator Bob Rankin Announces his Resignation Dec 1, 2022 Norma Lundeen: Only a few days after the husband and father we loved had been laid away, this storm of malice broke. His real talent was recruiting sympathetic Americans to do the work for him; recruiting Americans sometimes with cash, but sometimes just with his charm, with his powers of persuasion. Failure to address these issues risks leaving our grandchildren to face a parched, unlivable, ignorant existence. But the woman behind the mic that day, she was someone who was in a unique and interesting situation. 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. But for this scheme to be truly successful, Viereck needed his propaganda to go beyond Senator Lundeens reach with his constituents in Minnesota. The work on these practical matters is pressing in on us even now. 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. 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. 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 The saying in this body is that the minority gets their say, and the majority gets their way. 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.. Note that he may make real-time changes to some of the exact language. Together we must find balance in our discussions and a willingness to look to that far horizon. Senator Lundeen gave this speech detailing the history of the Minnesota Farmer Labor Party on August 15, 1940 Lundeen served in the United States Army during the Spanish-American War. You will experience the difference in the way this body and the broader General Assembly takes on and talks about issues. But besides their connection to this German foreign agent, they did all have one other thing in common. I realize you have precious little time to read another item at this moment, so its more of a placeholder for a conversation. 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 accusations of this nature are emphatically denied in the letters of the Attorney General Jackson and J. Edgar Hoover. The election is behind us, and we honor the result. Viereck, who had actively supported Robert M. La Follettes insurgent candidacy for the presidency in 1924, had cultivated friendships with several leading isolationist lawmakers, including New Yorks Hamilton Fish, Jr., but Senator Lundeen was arguably his closest ally in Congress. 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. All of them, Maloney now realized, apparent participants in this operation funded and run by the Hitler government to disseminate Nazi propaganda to the American people. Young: Wheeler used his position as a sitting member of the United States Senate to lobby the Justice Department to fire Maloney. If you were trying to reach Americans in their homes, if you were trying to influence Americans opinions and political leanings, and fundraise, and all the rest of it, you sent them mail. 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!) 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. The letter reads: "May I be a senator after Wash [ington] and And while he was doing that, he was also wheedling his way into the heart of American power. He was. Options for Contacting Senators. One reason is: adversity has a clarifying effect. It was all the correspondence between him and a man named George Sylvester Viereck. 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. So now we launch into 120 days of policy and politics. All of us face something completely unexpected in Coloradoempty store shelvesand runaway UNaffordability when we do find the products and services we seek. Lundeen was carrying these pages when he died, and they were found near the scene of the plane crash. How many members of Congress were in on this thing? Sie knnen Ihre Einstellungen jederzeit ndern. 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"). 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! 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. Welcome. Senate probe Lundeen was elected to the United States Senate in 1936 as a member of the Farmer-Labor Party. Lundeen might be dead, but George Sylvester Viereck was still out there. [11] It was later discovered that the files were actually stored in the Lundeen family archives. We can ratchet up the noise of politics or we can elevate the level of debate. 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. Lundeen was carrying these pages when he died, and they were found near the scene of the plane crash. With additional sound from CBS News. 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. IE 11 is not supported. That's what they were expecting. Lundeen was carrying these pages when he died, and they were found near the scene of the plane crash. 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. There are challenges. The prosecutor who was appointed was named William Power Maloney. To Senators Pelton (Byron and Rod), Baisley, Rich, Roberts, Exum, Cutter, Marchman, Mullica, and Sullivan, I extend a warm welcome to the state senate. 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. Radio Reporter: Senator Ernest Lundeen reported killed today in the crash of a Pennsylvania central airlines plane. 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. The speech written for Sen. Ernest Lundeen by a paid Nazi agent. 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This promises to be good. Holman, who never ran for public office again,died in 1959. 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. Madeleine Haeringer is our Head of Editorial. And some Americans didnt need much persuading. 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. What was Hitler trying to do? 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. Sound design by Tarek Fouda. Coloradans remain optimistic. So when federal agents raided the publicist's apartment that day, what they expected to find was a bunch of stuff involving Ernest Lundeen. Ernest Lundeen (August 4, 1878 August 31, 1940) was an American lawyer and politician. 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. 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 Archival support from Holly Klopchin. [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. Close Modal Suggest a Correction Young: The relationship that the two of them come up with is that Viereck will function as speech writer for Lundeen. Norma Lundeen: The dead cannot be hurt by vilification. 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 He was gonna need more Senators. She did not want the photos of his kids off his desk. Radio Announcer: Youre about to hear an address delivered before a meeting of the America First Committee in Madison Square Garden in New York City. Pretty soon were talking right past each other and the cacophony can only be described as noise. We face challenges too big to ignore and opportunities too important to fumble. The plane, a Douglas DC-3, flew into turbulence from a thunderstorm. Modern-day photo of the field in Lovettsville, Virginia where Trip 19 crashed in 1940, killing all 25 passengers on board. But he remained isolationist and was later denounced by the party as a reactiona Senator Ernest Lundeen would then deliver those speeches on the floor of the Senate, enter them into the Congressional Record. So, though in many cases, misguided policies have created or exacerbated the problems of today, I am optimistic that when we more fully embrace the principles and values that have made this country and this state exceptional we change our future for the better. The history books remember the senators widow as a tall, confident, well-spoken woman. 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. This is the man, who after the grave had closed on him, and he could no longer defend his good name, has been ruthlessly slandered by repeatedly suggesting that Senator Lundeen was not a loyal American. The letter reads: "May I be a senator after Wash[ington] and Lincoln and under God (always for our America.)". In 1896, Lundeen and his family moved to Harcourt, Iowa, and then to Minnesota. But Norma Lundeen was just getting warmed up. What she was there to do really was, as she put it, something unprecedented in radio broadcasting. She later made a dramatic plea for justice for her late husbands memory, but was denied an opportunity to speak directly to the jury. senado. She asked them to give her the Viereck files and she took them away with her. He sees Lundeen as an easy mark. That's when he had first gotten to know Viereck. I have been asked, can a team of twelve, the minority caucus in this august chamber make a difference? Darcy always has the most informative and entertaining articles. The series is Executive Produced by myself and Mike Yarvitz, and it's produced by Kelsey Desiderio. For it is in those commonsense and broadly acceptable solutions and the ability to crane our necks to see beyond today, even tomorrow, far beyond our time in this chamber that the optimism of the people of Colorado rests. Our Technical Director is Bryson Barnes. 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. 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. Library of Congress Engineer: Cut B-4 sounds like a dynamite record. Its a Congressional privilege thats called franking, which still exists today. Lundeens candidacy had as much or more to do with clearing her husbands name than in actually winning his Senate seat. 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. [3] An IPR Political Analysis: The Seventh Realignment, Breaking News: Connor Nepomuceno Resigns from LNC. Now, that was unusual because she did not work for NBC. 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. 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. , By Darcy G. Richardson on February 2, 2022 2:05 AM. He not only votes the right way but he fights for other pro-gun leaders to be elected to defend the Second Amendment. Yes! Manifest for Pennsylvania Central Airlines Flight 19 on August 31, 1940. Other countries have senators as well, either elected or appointed. The Colorado Senate is just three seats away from a conservative check on the out-of-control Democrat agenda. It hadnt even been a year since her husband had died in that terrible, mysterious plane crash. Despite the bill's Communist origins, the party mustered considerable support for it, including from union locals, international unions, and state labor federations. But we are intent to do more than just talk. Dies geschieht in Ihren Datenschutzeinstellungen. Party. Senate. Correspondence with organizations; speech invitations, some personal financial records, arranged alphabetically 1906-1932. box 4, folder 1-3. A copy of the Congressional Record from 1940, containing Sen. Ernest Lundeen's last speech on the floor of the Senate. 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