S8 Ep275: PREVIEW FOR LATER TONIGHT: LINDBERGH'S DISMAY AT BRITISH COMPLACENCY AND GERMAN POWER Colleague H.W. Brands. Professor Brands details Charles Lindbergh's complex worldview, combining a stubborn admiration for German efficiency with confusion regarding Naz
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 1 January 2026
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| 0:30.7 | This is John Batchel. |
| 0:35.8 | H.W. Brand's new book, America First, Roosevelt v. Lindberg, in the Shadow of War. |
| 0:38.4 | It's May, 1941. |
| 0:45.8 | Roosevelt goes on the air, baseball games stop, theater stops, movies stop, everybody listens on loudspeakers. |
| 0:48.9 | He declares a state of national emergency. It's unclear what it means to Lindberg and the America first, except for it's obvious that the U.S. is going to start |
| 0:56.5 | producing planes and weapons as it has never before, and the America First Committee has |
| 1:04.0 | work ahead of it to hold America back from the war. It believes, and Lindberg is the star. |
| 1:09.7 | Much more of this tonight. FTR versus |
| 1:12.8 | Lindberg. So the first thing he wants to do is to ramp up the production of arms. And the |
| 1:19.5 | production of arms will be to send more arms to Britain, but also to have more arms for the United |
| 1:24.4 | States. At this point, he is saying, well, America may need to defend itself |
| 1:29.7 | if attacked. But he's also thinking America needs to be prepared to go on the attack, to go into |
| 1:34.8 | war in Europe. And so this, a national emergency is putting American industry on a wartime footing, |
| 1:43.3 | but also putting the American mind, the American |
| 1:47.7 | people on a wartime footing. They're, okay, prepare for war. Until this point, Roosevelt has |
| 1:54.7 | taken the position that the war is over there and he's going to do his best to keep the war over |
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