Peter Kuznick

Yes. The big five, the military contractors are doing great.

Yes. The big five, the military contractors are doing great.

Yes. The big five, the military contractors are doing great.

Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

1934. Gerald Nye. Yeah, it was a great committee. The Nye Committee hearings in the Senate were an extraordinary moment, and it was a reaction to World War I. Because what Wilson said, we want a million volunteers. Well, they got 73,000 because Americans had been watching the World War I in Europe go on for three years. They saw the trench warfare. They saw the poison gas. It was a horrible war.

1934. Gerald Nye. Yeah, it was a great committee. The Nye Committee hearings in the Senate were an extraordinary moment, and it was a reaction to World War I. Because what Wilson said, we want a million volunteers. Well, they got 73,000 because Americans had been watching the World War I in Europe go on for three years. They saw the trench warfare. They saw the poison gas. It was a horrible war.

1934. Gerald Nye. Yeah, it was a great committee. The Nye Committee hearings in the Senate were an extraordinary moment, and it was a reaction to World War I. Because what Wilson said, we want a million volunteers. Well, they got 73,000 because Americans had been watching the World War I in Europe go on for three years. They saw the trench warfare. They saw the poison gas. It was a horrible war.

And so very few Americans wanted to volunteer. So we had a draft instead. But afterwards, in the 1920s, going back to Hollywood, they had a lot of fabulous movies about World War I that were passionately anti-war. Movies like The Big Parade, Wings, All Quiet on the Western Front. And the novels, almost all the American writers were opposed to the war.

And so very few Americans wanted to volunteer. So we had a draft instead. But afterwards, in the 1920s, going back to Hollywood, they had a lot of fabulous movies about World War I that were passionately anti-war. Movies like The Big Parade, Wings, All Quiet on the Western Front. And the novels, almost all the American writers were opposed to the war.

And so very few Americans wanted to volunteer. So we had a draft instead. But afterwards, in the 1920s, going back to Hollywood, they had a lot of fabulous movies about World War I that were passionately anti-war. Movies like The Big Parade, Wings, All Quiet on the Western Front. And the novels, almost all the American writers were opposed to the war.

And so the American attitude was very negative about World War I. So in 1934, Gerald Nye proposes these hearings and a new legislation to eliminate all profit from war. Now these bastards are making enormous amounts of profit.

And so the American attitude was very negative about World War I. So in 1934, Gerald Nye proposes these hearings and a new legislation to eliminate all profit from war. Now these bastards are making enormous amounts of profit.

And so the American attitude was very negative about World War I. So in 1934, Gerald Nye proposes these hearings and a new legislation to eliminate all profit from war. Now these bastards are making enormous amounts of profit.

Well, then they started to go after Wilson because it was a bipartisan effort on the committee. It had front page headlines. Who was Gerald Nye? Gerald Nye was a senator from... Midwest. Yeah, Midwest. Midwest Republican. Yeah. Progressive. There were a lot of progressive anti-war Republicans during World War I and then afterwards in the 20s and 30s. They've been libeled ever since.

Well, then they started to go after Wilson because it was a bipartisan effort on the committee. It had front page headlines. Who was Gerald Nye? Gerald Nye was a senator from... Midwest. Yeah, Midwest. Midwest Republican. Yeah. Progressive. There were a lot of progressive anti-war Republicans during World War I and then afterwards in the 20s and 30s. They've been libeled ever since.

Well, then they started to go after Wilson because it was a bipartisan effort on the committee. It had front page headlines. Who was Gerald Nye? Gerald Nye was a senator from... Midwest. Yeah, Midwest. Midwest Republican. Yeah. Progressive. There were a lot of progressive anti-war Republicans during World War I and then afterwards in the 20s and 30s. They've been libeled ever since.

Robert La Follette is one of the greats, but there were a lot of them then. And they weren't strictly isolationist. William Borough was one of the leaders from Idaho.

Robert La Follette is one of the greats, but there were a lot of them then. And they weren't strictly isolationist. William Borough was one of the leaders from Idaho.