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[[Image:Lindbergh.jpg |right|250px|thumb|Charles Lindbergh]]
[[Image:Lindbergh.jpg |right|250px|thumb|Charles Lindbergh]]
'''Charles Lindbergh''' (1902-1974) was an aviation pioneer. In 1927 he became the first to fly solo, non-stop, from [[New York]] to [[Paris]]. This feat created a sensation and he was welcomed by enormous crowds in France and, on his return, in New York.
'''Charles Lindbergh''' (1902-1974) was an aviation pioneer. In 1927 he became the first to fly solo, non-stop, from [[New York]] to [[Paris]]. This feat created a sensation and he was welcomed by enormous crowds in France and, on his return, in New York. He was a hero to conservatives for his exploits and his leadership of the "isolationists" in opposition to [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]]'s foreign policy in the late 1930s.
==The flight==
==The flight==
[[Image:Spirit-stlouis.jpg|thumb|370px|The Spirit of St. Louis]]
[[Image:Spirit-stlouis.jpg|thumb|370px|The Spirit of St. Louis]]
==America First==
==America First==
Lindbergh was the leading isolationist of the day. strongly opposing American entry into [[World War II]]. He made a major speech on 11 September 1941 at an America First rally in Des Moines, Iowa, that led ex-New York governor and presidential candidate [[Alfred E. Smith]] to charge Lindbergh with being an anti-Semite. Previous speeches had hinted at Jewish control of the government, but it was in this speech that Lindbergh named Jews as a group of "war agitators."
Lindbergh was the leading isolationist of the day, and the hero to conservatives opposing Roosvelt's foreign policies. He strongly opposing American entry into [[World War II]]. He made a major speech on 11 September 1941 at an America First rally in Des Moines, Iowa, that led ex-New York governor and presidential candidate [[Alfred E. Smith]] to charge Lindbergh with being an anti-Semite. Previous speeches had hinted at Jewish control of the government, but it was in this speech that Lindbergh named Jews as a group of "war agitators."
==World War II==
==World War II==