Quotes About America First Committee

Lindbergh became the public face and champion of an antiwar group called the America First Committee. "America First," a campaign slogan of Woodrow Wilson, had been adopted by the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s.

By 1940 'America first' had been entangled in America's political narrative for decades. Charles Lindbergh and the America First Committee of 1940 were not the beginning of the story of 'America first'. They were the end–until Donald Trump resuscitated the term.

The isolationists kept up a loud chorus of denunciation and formed the America First Committee to make sure that the 'mistake' of 1917 was not repeated. America First had an amazing range of supporters, from proto-Nazis to socialists – even to the Communist party, which vigorously opposed all American involvement in the 'imperialist' war from the time of the Nazi-Soviet Pact (August 1939) to Hitler's invasion of the Soviet Union (June 1941).