He cast the defendants who were being held in the D.C. jail as “political prisoners. - Rachel Maddow

Morrow Lindbergh’s pro-fascist book, The Wave of the Future (written at least in part by Lawrence Dennis), was still a bestseller in 1941, while her husband, the hero pilot, was out on the hustings leading the isolationist and increasingly antisemitic America First movement.

that probably there is ten times more [antisemitism] now in the United States than there was in Germany before Hitler’s rise to power.

the last Friday in August, when Congress rushed through Roosevelt’s $5 billion “Total Defense” package to fund the building of a navy capable of defending two oceans,